shortcut to change text boxes to make room for side heads
Just for future reference, is there some magical shortcut that automatically changes EVERY text box in a document so that it makes room for side heads? I have no idea what I accidentally pushed, but I somehow found that magical shortcut. It took me hours to locate every text box in a 100+ page document and manually change it back to NOT make room for side heads. I'd just like to know what the shortcut is so that I never, ever, ever do that again. Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celk...@awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com *** ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: shortcut to change text boxes to make room for side heads
I'm working in Frame 11, all patches applied. So if it's a bug, it is persistent. Carol At 09:44 AM 2/26/2014, Craig Ede wrote: I look forward to the responses to this since I have had the same thing happen to me (on FM10). It may be a bug. Usually I immediately close the document without saving and am okay. Occasionally I have to reimport the master pages from my template. Whatever causes this is a big problem. I don't believe I've seen this in FM 11. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Round-trip revisions via MS Word. Alternate methods?
Hi everyone. First post. My team converts our material to Word frequently for our Product Support group to use. Our trick is to create a pdf of the Frame document (as we normally do; our preferred delivery). We then use Acrobat's File... Save As Other... Microsoft Word... to create a .docx Word doc. Even the tables stay tidy. We're on Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise, FrameMaker 11 and Acrobat Pro XI. Thanks, Alan -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Harding, Dan Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 8:21 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Round-trip revisions via MS Word. Alternate methods? Good morning, We have used the same authoring process for eons: Authors/editors work in MS Word, as well as preliminary indexing work. I then take the MS Word file, import into FM (unstructured) and do the final print-ready formatting, making things adhere to our publishing standards and tightening up consistency. As a process it work well... until it's time to revise the book for the next edition. Our authors and editors will ONLY work in MS Word. PDF comments/revisions will not work, as there frequently are extensive revisions including insertion of new sections (multiple pages) of content, as well as shuffling of content. When I export the final FM version back to MS Word for them to work on, the conversion is VERY crude and frequently requires extensive work on the post-conversion Word files for the editors to be able to work within the files. Then of course there's the reformatting from scratch in FM when the revisions are done (which actually is faster and more reliable than trying to reconcile changes in the MS Word version with the existing FM version). Is there a better way to perform the round-trip process given the MS Word requirement, and barring that, are there better ways/tools to get cleaner MS Word files from FM than exporting to RTF? Would making the change from unstructured to structured FM on my part help in this regard? Environment: Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise Framemaker 10 (unstructured) [NOTE: TCS 5 is on order but I have not received it yet.] Microsoft Office 2010 Thank you in advance. Dan Harding University of Illinois Tax School ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as as...@ariens.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/asalo%40ariens.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: shortcut to change text boxes to make room for side heads
I look forward to the responses to this since I have had the same thing happen to me (on FM10). It may be a bug. Usually I immediately close the document without saving and am okay. Occasionally I have to reimport the master pages from my template. Whatever causes this is a big problem. I don't believe I've seen this in FM 11. Craig Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:40:02 -0700 To: fram...@omsys.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com From: celk...@awrittenword.com Subject: shortcut to change text boxes to make room for side heads Just for future reference, is there some magical shortcut that automatically changes EVERY text box in a document so that it makes room for side heads? I have no idea what I accidentally pushed, but I somehow found that magical shortcut. It took me hours to locate every text box in a 100+ page document and manually change it back to NOT make room for side heads. I'd just like to know what the shortcut is so that I never, ever, ever do that again. Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celk...@awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com *** ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as craig...@hotmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/craigede%40hotmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7
I own FrameMaker 6, Acrobat 8, Photoshop 5, Illustrator 7, and various more obscure apps of similar vintage. They all work fine for my purposes and upgrading would be not just a waste of money but a waste of time having to get used to UI changes. Buying a newer version of something because I needed it to work with a client's docs is the main reason I've upgraded, but I haven't freelanced with my own software in a long time. Unicode was added in FrameMaker 8, which remains the high-water mark for that codeline. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Davis, David david.da...@invensys.com wrote: The thing is, Robert, FM7 and Acrobat 7 have problems with more than just Windows 7, and if someone's earning their living using them, my advice to them would be to update their tools to something more recent, rather than compromise their operating system! Even on a basic level, if you only have FM7, you are not going to be able to open any FrameMaker docs you get sent from people with FM7.1, 7.2, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12! And you don't have Unicode support (that was FM 7.2, I think?). ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Round-trip revisions via MS Word. Alternate methods?
How's the re-import into FrameMaker? On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Alan Salo (Ariens Plant 1) as...@ariens.com wrote: Our trick is to create a pdf of the Frame document (as we normally do; our preferred delivery). We then use Acrobat's File... Save As Other... Microsoft Word... to create a .docx Word doc. Even the tables stay tidy. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FrameMaker Word conversion service?
Are there commercial services that do one-offs for people who don't own or plan to buy FrameMaker? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FrameMaker Word conversion service?
Hi, Well, it’s just a brute force thing. Do an auto conversion and then clean it up, perhaps applying Word styles? How is the documentation to be maintained and updated going forward? Word and FrameMaker separately, I would think. Sean On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:18 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Are there commercial services that do one-offs for people who don't own or plan to buy FrameMaker? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as techwordsm...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/techwordsmith%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
