Hairlines cont.

2013-07-22 Thread Robert CH Shell
Dear Craig: Thanks for replying. My FM 11 only magnifies to 400%, and there is NOTHING there. Rob -Original Message- From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 8:03 PM To: 'Robert CH Shell' Subject: RE: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM

Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:38 +1200 23/7/13, Alan Litchfield wrote: >And did you notice the repeated questions? Obviously, someone copied and >pasted into the template and changed the questions. This survey I think covered a lot of the same ground as a very similar one on all the 'Creative Cloud' stuff, so maybe ha

Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Robert CH Shell
Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists

Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Christenson, Pat
Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat

Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Mike Wickham
Have you zoomed into the PDF to see if the hairline is still there? Acrobat sometimes creates display artifacts, depending on zoom level. They only appear on screen at low zoom levels and don't print. Presumably, they are rounding errors, where Acrobat rounds something up to display as one pixe

Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 2013-Jul-22 1:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: > Dear Framers: > I am stuck once more. > I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. > However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is > surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. > No hairlines are visible in

RE: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
In my experience, this has happened for one of the following reasons: 1. The JPEG has the line in there as a row (or few) of single-color pixels that are different from the rest of the image - this requires fixing in an image editing program to remove. 2. The FM instance of that image has outli

Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
In my experience, this has happened for one of the following reasons: 1. The JPEG has the line in there as a row (or few) of single-color pixels that are different from the rest of the image - this requires fixing in an image editing program to remove. 2. The FM instance of that image has outli

Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Tori Muir
Robert, be sure that your Distiller is using joboptions that have Acrobat compatibility set to Acrobat 5 or above. Acrobat 4 compatibility will produce the hairlines. That said, Mike is correct -- they do not print. Tori Muir tm...@spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.com

Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Tori Muir
Robert, be sure that your Distiller is using joboptions that have Acrobat compatibility set to Acrobat 5 or above. Acrobat 4 compatibility will produce the hairlines. That said, Mike is correct -- they do not print. Tori Muir tmuir at spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.co

Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Mike Wickham
Have you zoomed into the PDF to see if the hairline is still there? Acrobat sometimes creates display artifacts, depending on zoom level. They only appear on screen at low zoom levels and don't print. Presumably, they are rounding errors, where Acrobat rounds something up to display as one pixe

Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Fred Ridder
s-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/36fae044/attachment.html>

Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Matt Sullivan
Robert, have you tried the Save as PDF route, with the Adobe PDF print driver selected? Same result? -Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 > On 2013-Jul-22 1:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: >> Dear Framers: >> I am stuck once more. >> I am printi

Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Matt Sullivan
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Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Rick Quatro
The lack of quality control in general has plagued the FrameMaker team over the last few years. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-283-5045 rick at frameexpert.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] O

Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 2013-Jul-22 1:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I c

Hairlines cont.

2013-07-22 Thread Robert CH Shell
Dear Craig: Thanks for replying. My FM 11 only magnifies to 400%, and there is NOTHING there. Rob -Original Message- From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 8:03 PM To: 'Robert CH Shell' Subject: RE: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM

ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.

2013-07-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:07:47 -0700, Scott Prentice wrote: >Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is >basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from >unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table >method for convert

Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:38 +1200 23/7/13, Alan Litchfield wrote: >And did you notice the repeated questions? Obviously, someone copied and >pasted into the template and changed the questions. This survey I think covered a lot of the same ground as a very similar one on all the 'Creative Cloud' stuff, so maybe ha

Auto-rotate pages in PDF

2013-07-22 Thread Jay Mahler
Framers, I'm stumped again. I'm running FM9 V9.0p237 and Acrobat Distiller 9.5.1283 on Win7. I'm distilling a large file that mostly has portrait pages with some embedded landscape pages. The file is set up so that "Apply Master Pages" automatically sets the appropriate portrait/landscape ori

Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Alan Litchfield
Same here. I used Safari, on a Mac. Alan On 23/07/13 5:17 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: I just finished the survey ... without any crashes. Used Chrome. Maybe the problems were browser-dependent issues? Z Mike Wickham said: It crashed near the end for me, too, but sig

Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Alan Litchfield
And did you notice the repeated questions? Obviously, someone copied and pasted into the template and changed the questions. Alan On 23/07/13 5:46 AM, Christenson, Pat wrote: Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not imp

Re: ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.

2013-07-22 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Jeremy! The price will be available when it's actually available .. hopefully soon. MIF2Go is definitely a good option, and is cheaper than this plugin will be. These tools are a collection of utilities that I've developed over the years to handle various situations, for preconversion clean

ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.

2013-07-22 Thread Scott Prentice
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. >http://mif2go.com/ > ___ > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130722/a2d652c4/attachment.html>

Re: ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.

2013-07-22 Thread Matt Sullivan
Ah, the MadCap approach to marketing…not sure I like it so much.Scott makes great stuff, and if you want to help him make more great stuff, by all means, check out what he's doing! -MattMatt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335

RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Fred Ridder
The company information section was actually the part where the survey kept failing for me. I took it as a sign and deleted the message announcing the survey so that I wouldn't be tempted to waste any more time. -FR > From: sha...@anthrobytes.com > To: pchristen...@ftportfolios.com; framers@lis

Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:26 + 19/7/13, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: >Adobe conducts a "Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey". >The link is below. >If you want to vote for/against any specific licensing models, then here is >the place to tell directly to Adobe. I have now tried to complete this survey

Re: ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.

2013-07-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:07:47 -0700, Scott Prentice wrote: >Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is >basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from >unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table >method for converti

ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.

2013-07-22 Thread Matt Sullivan
amers/matt%40mattrsullivan.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/fr

RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Sharon Burton
I like the part where you have to create an account, including password and give up info about your company. #Fail sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com -Original Message- From

Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Sharon Burton
I like the part where you have to create an account, including password and give up info about your company. #Fail sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 www.sharonburton.com Twitter: sharonburton Author of 8 Steps to Amazing Webinars, available on Amazon and bn.com -Original Message- From

RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Rick Quatro
The lack of quality control in general has plagued the FrameMaker team over the last few years. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-283-5045 r...@frameexpert.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Beha

RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Christenson, Pat
Glad to see question about FrameMaker on Macintosh. But -- spelling errors in the survey? Misleading layout? Not impressed, Adobe. Pat ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frame

RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I just finished the survey ... without any crashes. Used Chrome. Maybe the problems were browser-dependent issues? Z Mike Wickham said: > It crashed near the end for me, too, but signing back in let me take up where > I left off. ___ You are curren

Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Robert CH Shell
Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I cannot find the answer in the manual or the lists

Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I just finished the survey ... without any crashes. Used Chrome. Maybe the problems were browser-dependent issues? Z Mike Wickham said: > It crashed near the end for me, too, but signing back in let me take up where > I left off.

ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.

2013-07-22 Thread Scott Prentice
Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table method for converting, this will save you lots of time. Here's the current docs ..

ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.

2013-07-22 Thread Scott Prentice
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Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Mike Wickham
It crashed near the end for me, too, but signing back in let me take up where I left off. Mike Wickham > I have now tried to complete this survey twice, and both times it's crashed > near the end. A big time-waster. > > Nice to see that one of the questions was about FrameMaker on Mac, though ;-

Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Alan, In the paragraph above it says: We will be announcing the winners during the week of 7th October 2013. The Winners will be notified by email. If a potential Winner cannot be contacted, is contacted and does not respond as directed within the time allotted following attempted notificat

Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Mike Wickham
It crashed near the end for me, too, but signing back in let me take up where I left off. Mike Wickham I have now tried to complete this survey twice, and both times it's crashed near the end. A big time-waster. Nice to see that one of the questions was about FrameMaker on Mac, though ;-)

Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Fred Ridder
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Keyboard shortcuts causing crash on FM appserver installation

2013-07-22 Thread Mike Thorn
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July 25 webinar "Designing Templates in FrameMaker" with Barb Binder

2013-07-22 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
Designing Templates in FrameMaker 11 25July 10AM Pacific Time, Register at: http://adobe.ly/131zIx0 Template design in FrameMaker is intuitive, easy-to-grasp, yet produces potent results, even in the early stages of a project. Whether you are working with unstructured FrameMaker, or you plan to

RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Fred Ridder
It has also crashed for me on both of my attempts. But at least for me it crashed after less than 3 or 4 minutes. -Fred Ridder > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:17:43 +0100 > To: wr...@tycoint.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com > From: srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk > Subject: Re: Adobe Tech Comm Co

Re: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:26 + 19/7/13, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: >Adobe conducts a "Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey". >The link is below. >If you want to vote for/against any specific licensing models, then here is >the place to tell directly to Adobe. I have now tried to complete this survey

RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Alan, In the paragraph above it says: We will be announcing the winners during the week of 7th October 2013. The Winners will be notified by email. If a potential Winner cannot be contacted, is contacted and does not respond as directed within the time allotted following attempted notificat