Hyperlinking Between Frame and MS Word Source

2011-02-04 Thread Steve Johnson
I'm copying Bell Allums from WebWorks. There probably is a way but I can't recall it. You can also post this on the WebWorks user forum, which is a Yahoo user group, search for it. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Angela Akridge wrote: > Hi, > > I know most, if not all of you, love Frame and wou

RE: Hyperlinking Between Frame and MS Word Source

2011-02-04 Thread Combs, Richard
Angela Akridge wrote: > I basically have a "hybrid" help system that calls both Frame source > and MS > Word source. I use WebWorks. The help output looks great, and a > customer > can't distinguish the underlying source. However, I need to link > (cross-reference/hyperlink) between these two so

Hyperlinking Between Frame and MS Word Source

2011-02-04 Thread Combs, Richard
Angela Akridge wrote: > I basically have a "hybrid" help system that calls both Frame source > and MS > Word source. I use WebWorks. The help output looks great, and a > customer > can't distinguish the underlying source. However, I need to link > (cross-reference/hyperlink) between these two sou

RE: "[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard

2011-02-04 Thread Dov Isaacs
Yes, Jacob and his company does have a workaround. I unfortunately forgot about it. Nonetheless, it is a workaround hack and it doesn't change the fact that Framemaker does not yet currently have a fully and/or properly functioning method of getting proper DeviceCMYK printing or PDF exactly matc

framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 4

2011-02-04 Thread Pinkham, Jim
Not ready to go there, friends. Yes, the gray is drear, indeed -- total agreement on that point!! And, no, Adobe's first incarnation of customizable UIs for Frame that can be adjusted (and restored) on the fly isn't perfect. But I can do things with it I never could before, and, all in all, I thin

"[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard

2011-02-04 Thread Dov Isaacs
Yes, Jacob and his company does have a workaround. I unfortunately forgot about it. Nonetheless, it is a workaround hack and it doesn't change the fact that Framemaker does not yet currently have a fully and/or properly functioning method of getting proper DeviceCMYK printing or PDF exactly matc

Registration marks missing

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Ridder
Did you turn off the "Generate Acrobat Data" option? As I recall, that disables registration marks on the assumption that if you're turning on hyperlinks you are producing an electronic deliverable rather than a master for printing. -Fred Ridder > Subject: Registration marks missing > Date: Fr

Registration marks missing

2011-02-04 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 04/02/2011 2:46 PM, White, Scott wrote: > I was trying to do a pdf output for print with Registration marks. I > didn't get any marks in the rendered PDF. > I used save as pdf, selected registration marks western, printed to > 11x17 output just to see, and I got all I expected but the registrati

Registration marks missing

2011-02-04 Thread Brad Anderson
Scott, What was the final size of the PDF? 11x17 or 8.5 x 11? Turn off the Generate Acrobat Data--the PDF is probably being cropped. Thanks, Brad On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:46 PM, White, Scott wrote: > I was trying to do a pdf output for print with Registration marks. I > didn't get any marks i

RE: framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 4

2011-02-04 Thread Pinkham, Jim
Not ready to go there, friends. Yes, the gray is drear, indeed -- total agreement on that point!! And, no, Adobe's first incarnation of customizable UIs for Frame that can be adjusted (and restored) on the fly isn't perfect. But I can do things with it I never could before, and, all in all, I thin

Hyperlinking Between Frame and MS Word Source

2011-02-04 Thread Angela Akridge
Hi, I know most, if not all of you, love Frame and would never consider using MS Word. I too use Frame for most of my projects. However, I have MS Word files that need to be maintained by other authors (technical support), and these same files are used in my online help. I basically have a "hybr

Re: framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 4

2011-02-04 Thread Tori Muir
PREACH IT sister! Not only is the "Stalin gray" interface fugly and depressing (and much darker than Adobe's other fugly gray interfaces), the whole pod/docking behavior is incredibly time-wasting. Everything seems to want to glue itself into everything else! Maybe it's a sign of having become

Re: Registration marks missing

2011-02-04 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 04/02/2011 2:46 PM, White, Scott wrote: I was trying to do a pdf output for print with Registration marks. I didn't get any marks in the rendered PDF. I used save as pdf, selected registration marks western, printed to 11x17 output just to see, and I got all I expected but the registration mar

Re: Registration marks missing

2011-02-04 Thread Brad Anderson
Scott, What was the final size of the PDF? 11x17 or 8.5 x 11? Turn off the Generate Acrobat Data--the PDF is probably being cropped. Thanks, Brad On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:46 PM, White, Scott wrote: > I was trying to do a pdf output for print with Registration marks. I > didn't get any marks i

framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 4

2011-02-04 Thread Tori Muir
PREACH IT sister! Not only is the "Stalin gray" interface fugly and depressing (and much darker than Adobe's other fugly gray interfaces), the whole pod/docking behavior is incredibly time-wasting. Everything seems to want to glue itself into everything else! Maybe it's a sign of having become

Registration marks missing

2011-02-04 Thread White, Scott
I was trying to do a pdf output for print with Registration marks. I didn't get any marks in the rendered PDF. I used save as pdf, selected registration marks western, printed to 11x17 output just to see, and I got all I expected but the registration marks. Mac OS10 running parallels > window 7 ho

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Helen Borrie
At 01:38 PM 4/02/2011, Ann Zdunczyk wrote: >I worked for Western Electric/AT&T/Lucent as a technical writer and I am >very familiar with POTS!!! It is what we called them. That label is on one of the sockets on my Belkin ADSL router, which supports VOIP. I had to look it up to discover that it m

Hyperlinking Between Frame and MS Word Source

2011-02-04 Thread Angela Akridge
Hi, I know most, if not all of you, love Frame and would never consider using MS Word. I too use Frame for most of my projects. However, I have MS Word files that need to be maintained by other authors (technical support), and these same files are used in my online help. I basically have a "hybr

RE: framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 4

2011-02-04 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
On Stuart's rant, I want to add my distaste for the whole pod thing. Not only has it taken me a long time to find a view (or whatever they call it) that doesn't get in my way, there are some awful bugs in the pods. Try deleting multiple variables or multiple conditions. After you delete one, the

Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Deborah Riffin
I worked in telecom back in the 80's and the acronymn POTS was always used...plain old telephone service requiring bell to come out and install a telephone jack in your home or business and then connect it to a BOX (local to your neighbor) and then make connect to Central Office...That explaina

RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Everette, Dimi
LMAO, great idea! Regards, Dimi Dimi Everette, Sr. Technical Writer 6500 River Place Blvd., Bldg. 6, Austin, TX 78730  | t: 512.372.6988 | f: 512.372.7001  Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail   This communication (including any attachments) may conta

RE: Registration marks missing

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Ridder
Did you turn off the "Generate Acrobat Data" option? As I recall, that disables registration marks on the assumption that if you're turning on hyperlinks you are producing an electronic deliverable rather than a master for printing. -Fred Ridder > Subject: Registration marks missing > Date:

Registration marks missing

2011-02-04 Thread White, Scott
I was trying to do a pdf output for print with Registration marks. I didn't get any marks in the rendered PDF. I used save as pdf, selected registration marks western, printed to 11x17 output just to see, and I got all I expected but the registration marks. Mac OS10 running parallels > window 7 ho

framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 4

2011-02-04 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
On Stuart's rant, I want to add my distaste for the whole pod thing. Not only has it taken me a long time to find a view (or whatever they call it) that doesn't get in my way, there are some awful bugs in the pods. Try deleting multiple variables or multiple conditions. After you delete one, the

Custom cell spacing - SOLVED (sorta)

2011-02-04 Thread Pat Christenson
I just discovered this but it's only true of that particular table. Apparently the only way to get the custom bottom cell margin to work is to set the bottom table cell margin to 0. Custom bottom cell margin works fine in other tables. Must be some corruption. Pat On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:30 P

Nortel Standard English - Correct term for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread John Smart
We did the Nortel Standard English for China and "landline" was a major term for which there is no Mandarin. The correct Controlled English method is to write. "You can call on a Mobile device or another type of telephone". On Wall Street they use the term, "Hoot and Holler phones" - open lines

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread John Posada
To Vonage and Comcast it is. >> Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between >> different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is "wired" >> doesn't mean that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look just >> like a POTS system, but technically, isn't (is VO

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Ridder
> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:52:46 -0800 > From: sp10 at leximation.com > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline" > > Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between > different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread John Posada
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Scott Prentice wrote: > Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between > different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is "wired" doesn't > mean that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look just like a POTS > system, but tec

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Deborah Riffin
I worked in telecom back in the 80's and the acronymn POTS was always used...plain old telephone service requiring bell to come out and install a telephone jack in your home or business and then connect it to a BOX (local to your neighbor) and then make connect to Central Office...That explaina

Re: Custom cell spacing - SOLVED (sorta)

2011-02-04 Thread Pat Christenson
I just discovered this but it's only true of that particular table. Apparently the only way to get the custom bottom cell margin to work is to set the bottom table cell margin to 0. Custom bottom cell margin works fine in other tables. Must be some corruption. Pat On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:30

Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Karen Robbins
PANS = Peculiar and Novel Services. Or, Pretty Amazing New Stuff (according to Harry Newton, used to describe ISDN). --Karen ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com.

Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Laura Lemay
On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: Regardless of which, we _sometime_ refer internal people (and customers) to this: http://www.amazon.com/Newtons-Telecom-Dictionary-25th-Telecommunications/dp/0979387337/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296841211&sr

RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Clearly, context matters! In the business I am in, "wireless" is cellular services (but not necessarily other radios), and "landline" is equivalent to POTS (which includes VOIP service to the house - from Vonage and others). :) Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameuser

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Alan T Litchfield
Telephone? What's wrong with landline? Alan On 4/02/2011, at 10:25 AM, Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC WR-ALC/ ENGLTB wrote: > Desk Phone? > > -Original Message- > From: techwr-l-bounces+darren.butler.ctr=robins.af.mil at techwr-l.com > [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+darren.butler.ctr=robins

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Clearly, context matters! In the business I am in, "wireless" is cellular services (but not necessarily other radios), and "landline" is equivalent to POTS (which includes VOIP service to the house - from Vonage and others). :) Z -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameu

RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Oops. :( I tend to also use the following site: http://www.telecomdictionary.com/Telecom_Dictionary_Definitions.asp for references. Where "landline" is shown as: TermDefinition LandlineA conventional domestic or business telephone circuit. The term landline applies to telephone li

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Oops. :( I tend to also use the following site: http://www.telecomdictionary.com/Telecom_Dictionary_Definitions.asp for references. Where "landline" is shown as: TermDefinition LandlineA conventional domestic or business telephone circuit. The term landline applies to telephone li

Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread John Posada
To Vonage and Comcast it is. >> Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between >> different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is "wired" >> doesn't mean that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look just >> like a POTS system, but technically, isn't (is VO

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Laura Lemay
On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote: > Regardless of which, we _sometime_ refer internal people (and > customers) to this: > > > http://www.amazon.com/Newtons-Telecom-Dictionary-25th-Telecommunications/dp/0979387337/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=12968

Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread John Posada
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Scott Prentice wrote: > Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between > different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is "wired" doesn't > mean that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look just like a POTS > system, but tec

Re: Nortel Standard English - Correct term for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread John Smart
We did the Nortel Standard English for China and "landline" was a major term for which there is no Mandarin. The correct Controlled English method is to write. "You can call on a Mobile device or another type of telephone". On Wall Street they use the term, "Hoot and Holler phones" - open line

RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
And, an excellent site that covers all the terms we have mentioned so far: http://www.telecomdictionary.com/telecom_dictionary_definitions.asp Sorry to bombard people with info ... :) Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 04/02/2011 9:32 AM, Writer wrote: > Maybe we should refer to mobile phones as PANS: Postmodern Ambulatory > Nattering Systems. Then we can have POTS and PANS. > > Nadine When I worked at Nortel, we already had both POTS and PANS as acronyms. (I just can't remember what the latter stood for,

RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
There is also a "Federal Standard" on the topic, by the way: http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/ Z -Original Message- From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:00 AM To: 'Scott Prentice'; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Customer-friend

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
And, an excellent site that covers all the terms we have mentioned so far: http://www.telecomdictionary.com/telecom_dictionary_definitions.asp Sorry to bombard people with info ... :) Z -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Karen Robbins
PANS = Peculiar and Novel Services. Or, Pretty Amazing New Stuff (according to Harry Newton, used to describe ISDN). --Karen

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
There is also a "Federal Standard" on the topic, by the way: http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/ Z -Original Message- From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:00 AM To: 'Scott Prentice'; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Customer-fri

RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
The telecom industry (that I am in) has come up with so many acronyms and terms for simple reasons: _Unlike_ other industries, the need to interact (people and systems) between multiple vendors/suppliers, multiple industry organizations and regulatory bodies, and multiple _nations_, drives a HU

RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Ridder
> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:52:46 -0800 > From: s...@leximation.com > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline" > > Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between > different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is "wire

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
The telecom industry (that I am in) has come up with so many acronyms and terms for simple reasons: _Unlike_ other industries, the need to interact (people and systems) between multiple vendors/suppliers, multiple industry organizations and regulatory bodies, and multiple _nations_, drives a HU

Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 04/02/2011 9:32 AM, Writer wrote: Maybe we should refer to mobile phones as PANS: Postmodern Ambulatory Nattering Systems. Then we can have POTS and PANS. Nadine When I worked at Nortel, we already had both POTS and PANS as acronyms. (I just can't remember what the latter stood for, now.)

Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Swallow
Why is my plant ringing? ;-) Yeah, I've worked in telecom but even then I found the term amusing. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Everette, Dimi wrote: > Hmm...we use POTS (plain old telephone service) but that probably won't work > for 6th graders! :) -- Bill Swallow Twitter: @techcommdood

Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Scott Prentice
Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is "wired" doesn't mean that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look just like a POTS system, but technically, isn't (is VOIP considered a "landline" .. I dunno)

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Böðvar Björgvinsson
What is wrong with landline? Is it bad that it is easily understandable? Should you really try to find a word that no none understands without a Masters degree in English? It seems to me that there is an ongoing snob for Latin-based words, acronyms (Latin) and abbreviations (Latin) (or shorts (Hum

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Swallow
Why is my plant ringing? ;-) Yeah, I've worked in telecom but even then I found the term amusing. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Everette, Dimi wrote: > Hmm...we use POTS (plain old telephone service) but that probably won't work > for 6th graders! :) -- Bill Swallow Twitter: @techcommdood

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Scott Prentice
Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is "wired" doesn't mean that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look just like a POTS system, but technically, isn't (is VOIP considered a "landline" .. I dunno)

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Everette, Dimi
LMAO, great idea! Regards, Dimi Dimi Everette, Sr. Technical Writer 6500 River Place Blvd., Bldg. 6, Austin, TX 78730? | t: 512.372.6988 | f: 512.372.7001 ?Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail ? This communication (including any attachments) may conta

RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Writer
Maybe we should refer to mobile phones as PANS: Postmodern Ambulatory Nattering Systems. Then we can have POTS and PANS. Nadine --- On Thu, 2/3/11, Everette, Dimi wrote: > From: Everette, Dimi > Subject: RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline" > To: "Alan T Litchfield" , "Butler, Darren J C

Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Writer
Maybe we should refer to mobile phones as PANS: Postmodern Ambulatory Nattering Systems. Then we can have POTS and PANS. Nadine --- On Thu, 2/3/11, Everette, Dimi wrote: > From: Everette, Dimi > Subject: RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline" > To: "Alan T Litchfield" , "Butler, Darren J C

RE: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Everette, Dimi
Hmm...we use POTS (plain old telephone service) but that probably won't work for 6th graders! :) Regards, Dimi Dimi Everette, Sr. Technical Writer 6500 River Place Blvd., Bldg. 6, Austin, TX 78730  | t: 512.372.6988 | f: 512.372.7001  Please consider your environmental responsibility before

Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"

2011-02-04 Thread Böðvar Björgvinsson
What is wrong with landline? Is it bad that it is easily understandable? Should you really try to find a word that no none understands without a Masters degree in English? It seems to me that there is an ongoing snob for Latin-based words, acronyms (Latin) and abbreviations (Latin) (or shorts (Hum