Re: FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the Acrobat Bookmarks pane

a PS file and distill that. The Save As > PDF function is problematic. If you have Distiller open and print the PS > file to a watched folder, then it will automatically begin distilling once > the file is present. Additionally, Save As PDF doesn't use the Distiller > application. >

Re: FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the Acrobat Bookmarks pane

> > Another piece of the puzzle: > If I have the Acrobat Distiller already open and waiting before doing a > 'Save As PDF', it makes the bookmarks, or at least it seems more likely to. > > - avi > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Avraham Makeler wrote: >

FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the Acrobat Bookmarks pane

Hi all, Something seems to have gone wrong with my FM 8 installation. FM 8 is no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the Acrobat (v9) Bookmarks pane. I recall the problem started when I was using FM 7.2 on a different PC, but had to uninstall Acrobat v9 due to a licensing issue, and then in

FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the Acrobat Bookmarks pane

Hi all, Something seems to have gone wrong with my FM 8 installation. FM 8 is no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the Acrobat (v9) Bookmarks pane. I recall the problem started when I was using FM 7.2 on a different PC, but had to uninstall Acrobat v9 due to a licensing issue, and then in

Is there a FrameMaker utility to "Save As" books from FM 8 to FM 7?

avi On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Luke, Ken wrote: > Open the book file then hold down the shift key and the File > > Open/Save/Close commands change to their "... All Documents in Book" > equivalent. > > You'd still need to open each book file separately

Suppress automatic updating of cross-references for *all documents in a book* ?

Hi all, FM 7/8: Is there a single command for suppressing automatic updating of cross-references for *all

Re: Is there a FrameMaker utility to "Save As" books from FM 8 to FM 7?

avi On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Luke, Ken wrote: > Open the book file then hold down the shift key and the File > > Open/Save/Close commands change to their "... All Documents in Book" > equivalent. > > You'd still need to open each book file separately

Is there a FrameMaker utility to "Save As" books from FM 8 to FM 7?

Hi all, I have a client that uses FM7, but when I work at home, I use FM8. So when every now and again I update their document source archives I have to convert all the files from FM7 to FM8. Not so bad, however there are a lot of books, and ... within each book, it seems I have to do 'Save As' fo

Suppress automatic updating of cross-references for *all documents in a book* ?

Hi all, FM 7/8: Is there a single command for suppressing automatic updating of cross-references for *all

Is there a FrameMaker utility to "Save As" books from FM 8 to FM 7?

Hi all, I have a client that uses FM7, but when I work at home, I use FM8. So when every now and again I update their document source archives I have to convert all the files from FM7 to FM8. Not so bad, however there are a lot of books, and ... within each book, it seems I have to do 'Save As' fo

Is there an FM utility for sorting (ordering) sections according to alphabetical order?

HI all, Is there an FM utility for sorting (ordering) sections according to alphabetical order? e.g., if I specify to sort within Section 3.1, then: Section 3.1.1 Function_ABC Section 3.1.2 Function_XYZ Section 3.1.3 Function_LMN will be sorted to: Section 3.1.1 Function_ABC Section 3.1.2 Fu

Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> >> You should seriously consider changing this practice in favor of >> placing the table title inside the title box that is an optional part of the >> table object. >> You are right. >> Ok, did i

Is there an FM utility for sorting (ordering) sections according to alphabetical order?

HI all, Is there an FM utility for sorting (ordering) sections according to alphabetical order? e.g., if I specify to sort within Section 3.1, then: Section 3.1.1 Function_ABC Section 3.1.2 Function_XYZ Section 3.1.3 Function_LMN will be sorted to: Section 3.1.1 Function_ABC Section 3.1.2 Fu

Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

>> You should seriously consider changing this practice in favor of placing the table title inside the title box that is an optional part of the table object. You are right. Ok, did it. I see now that that also immediately correctly the jumping problem. Not exactly sure yet why it fixed it, but fi

Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

Thanks. It will take me a while to absorb that, though. avi On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Combs, Richard wrote: > Avraham Makeler wrote: > > > Tentative conclusion: it seems that the setting: > > > > "Keep With Next" = true > > > > of the table

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Combs, Richard wrote: > Avraham Makeler quoted himself saying: > > > > > Ok, end of mystery. Found the problem: I only just noticed that the > Table > > > Designer also has an Orphan Rows field. The TableCaption style was > set to

Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

tive conclusion: it seems that the setting: "Keep With Next" = true of the table caption (or maybe of the table anchor on that line) is percolating down through all the table rows even though they themselves have that setting set to false. Comments, anyone? avi On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 a

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Ok, end of mystery. Found the problem: I only just noticed that the Table > Designer also has an Orphan Rows field. The TableCaption style was set to > 99. > Thanks again to all. > > - avi > > > > On Wed, F

Re: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> >> You should seriously consider changing this practice in favor of >> placing the table title inside the title box that is an optional part of the >> table object. >> You are right. >> Ok, did i

Framemaker SDK and Framescript

I have just started to use FM professionally, having started about 2 months ago, and I was soon going to post exactly this type of question. To avoid this being just a "yup, me too" type of response, I suppose I'd better add something of some intelligence. It is worth remembering that the Word VBA

Re: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

>> You should seriously consider changing this practice in favor of placing the table title inside the title box that is an optional part of the table object. You are right. Ok, did it. I see now that that also immediately correctly the jumping problem. Not exactly sure yet why it fixed it, but fi

Re: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

Thanks. It will take me a while to absorb that, though. avi On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Combs, Richard wrote: > Avraham Makeler wrote: > > > Tentative conclusion: it seems that the setting: > > > > "Keep With Next" = true > > > > of the table

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> Is the table defined with too many rows for the page? > Yes, I should have mentioned, the table is just longer than will fit in a > single page. > > (I had already collapsed into bed when I remembered that I had fo

Re: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Combs, Richard wrote: > Avraham Makeler quoted himself saying: > > > > > Ok, end of mystery. Found the problem: I only just noticed that the > Table > > > Designer also has an Orphan Rows field. The TableCaption style was > set to

Re: Another table jumping; have I found a bug/feature?

tive conclusion: it seems that the setting: "Keep With Next" = true of the table caption (or maybe of the table anchor on that line) is percolating down through all the table rows even though they themselves have that setting set to false. Comments, anyone? avi On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 a

Re: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Ok, end of mystery. Found the problem: I only just noticed that the Table > Designer also has an Orphan Rows field. The TableCaption style was set to > 99. > Thanks again to all. > > - avi > > > > On Wed, F

Re: Framemaker SDK and Framescript

I have just started to use FM professionally, having started about 2 months ago, and I was soon going to post exactly this type of question. To avoid this being just a "yup, me too" type of response, I suppose I'd better add something of some intelligence. It is worth remembering that the Word VBA

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

Hi all, I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that follows the table's insertion page, so leaving a blank page. So the table's anchor point is left at the top of the blank page, and the actual table itself starts at the top of the next page. What is going wrong? Thanks,

Re: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> Is the table defined with too many rows for the page? > Yes, I should have mentioned, the table is just longer than will fit in a > single page. > > (I had already collapsed into bed when I remembered that I had fo

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

Hi all, I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that follows the table's insertion page, so leaving a blank page. So the table's anchor point is left at the top of the blank page, and the actual table itself starts at the top of the next page. What is going wrong? Thanks,

TOC pages start at page "4", and I want it to start at page "iv".

rrassed to admit that after all my clever wangling with tags and > numbering, I'd forgot to update the book! > > Good luck! > > --William A. > > > Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> HI all, >> In one particular book, the TOC section starts at page "4",

Re: TOC pages start at page "4", and I want it to start at page "iv".

rrassed to admit that after all my clever wangling with tags and > numbering, I'd forgot to update the book! > > Good luck! > > --William A. > > > Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> HI all, >> In one particular book, the TOC section starts at page "4",

TOC pages start at page "4", and I want it to start at page "iv".

HI all, In one particular book, the TOC section starts at page "4", and I want it to start at page "iv". Nothing I do seems to want it to start at page "iv". Ideas? avi

TOC pages start at page "4", and I want it to start at page "iv".

HI all, In one particular book, the TOC section starts at page "4", and I want it to start at page "iv". Nothing I do seems to want it to start at page "iv". Ideas? avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send li

Within Adobe Acrobat Reader, is FrameMaker markup (e.g., Track Text) searchable?

Hi all, Is FrameMaker Track Text searchable within Adobe Reader (or some equivalent)? (Or even within Acrobat?) If not, is there any type of markup that is automatically applied when editing within FM, that is transfered to the PDF, and is searchable within Adobe Reader (or some equivalent)? Tha

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

meusers.com] On Behalf Of > > Art Campbell > > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:20 PM > > To: Avraham Makeler > > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > > Subject: Re: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC > > > > The designer boxes may have caused the problem,

Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

maybe there is some reverse psychology going on here: maybe they are trying to attract new users. Nobody likes to feel they are at the bottom of the class, which is what you are when you start out using a well-established app - so best to try something that is new to all. So the idea is to revolut

How can I search for bold text and change it to a character style?

Hi all, How can I search for bold text (this, I know how to do) and change it to a character style (this, not) ? TIA avi

Within Adobe Acrobat Reader, is FrameMaker markup (e.g., Track Text) searchable?

Hi all, Is FrameMaker Track Text searchable within Adobe Reader (or some equivalent)? (Or even within Acrobat?) If not, is there any type of markup that is automatically applied when editing within FM, that is transfered to the PDF, and is searchable within Adobe Reader (or some equivalent)? Tha

Re: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

s.com] On Behalf Of > > Art Campbell > > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:20 PM > > To: Avraham Makeler > > Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com > > Subject: Re: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC > > > > The designer boxes may have caused the problem, but you&#

Re: Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

maybe there is some reverse psychology going on here: maybe they are trying to attract new users. Nobody likes to feel they are at the bottom of the class, which is what you are when you start out using a well-established app - so best to try something that is new to all. So the idea is to revolut

How can I search for bold text and change it to a character style?

Hi all, How can I search for bold text (this, I know how to do) and change it to a character style (this, not) ? TIA avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com.

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

50 PM, Stephen O'Brien wrote: > Hi, > > Same thing happens to me with FM 8..when the Hypertext dialog box is > open... > > Have a nice day! > > > At 12:31 PM 19/01/2009, Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> Hi all, >> FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC. I mean tri

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

l." -- Richard Thompson Yes, my wife's redheaded. Is that supposed to make FM run faster? (Don't know what a Vincent is.) >> Same thing happens to me with FM 8..when the Hypertext dialog box is open... Hypertext dialog box is not open. But that's an idea, maybe I should c

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

Hi all, FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC. I mean trivial cursor tasks like jumping the cursor from one word to another or selecting text. My PC is a 2.8 GHz Pentium IV (full architecture) and it is really fast and great for everything else. FM7.2 is much more snappy on my PC. Has anybody else no

Split table; add text after a table

Hi all, How can I split a table in the middle? I have a table followed immediately by a heading. How do I add a new text paragraph between the table and the heading? TIA - avi

How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

Thanks for the responses. >> You could choose Special> Page Break. The problem with that method is that FrameMaker removes the page break anytime you remove overrides. What?! Really?! In Word this is style independent and is a hard break , as real as typing "avi" or any ASCII character(s). No way

Re: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

50 PM, Stephen O'Brien wrote: > Hi, > > Same thing happens to me with FM 8..when the Hypertext dialog box is > open... > > Have a nice day! > > > At 12:31 PM 19/01/2009, Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> Hi all, >> FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC. I mean tri

Re: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

l." -- Richard Thompson Yes, my wife's redheaded. Is that supposed to make FM run faster? (Don't know what a Vincent is.) >> Same thing happens to me with FM 8..when the Hypertext dialog box is open... Hypertext dialog box is not open. But that's an idea, maybe I should c

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

Hi all, FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC. I mean trivial cursor tasks like jumping the cursor from one word to another or selecting text. My PC is a 2.8 GHz Pentium IV (full architecture) and it is really fast and great for everything else. FM7.2 is much more snappy on my PC. Has anybody else no

Split table; add text after a table

Hi all, How can I split a table in the middle? I have a table followed immediately by a heading. How do I add a new text paragraph between the table and the heading? TIA - avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Re: How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

Thanks for the responses. >> You could choose Special> Page Break. The problem with that method is that FrameMaker removes the page break anytime you remove overrides. What?! Really?! In Word this is style independent and is a hard break , as real as typing "avi" or any ASCII character(s). No way

How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

Hi all, I have a table *immediately* followed by a heading, the latter being almost at the end of the page. So I would like to insert a page break before the heading. How do I do that? Maybe connected to the above (in Word it would be), I would also like to know how to convert just one row of a ta

How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

Hi all, I have a table *immediately* followed by a heading, the latter being almost at the end of the page. So I would like to insert a page break before the heading. How do I do that? Maybe connected to the above (in Word it would be), I would also like to know how to convert just one row of a ta

Thanks, all you guys! [ Re: mapping that defines the way the entries in the TOCs look ]

Thanks, all you guys, for all the help you gave me last week. The story was that I was recommended by a friend for a job using FrameMaker. I pointed out that although the content is my niche (APIs), I have never professionally used FrameMaker (apart from a couple of home courses I did a while back

Thanks, all you guys! [ Re: mapping that defines the way the entries in the TOCs look ]

Thanks, all you guys, for all the help you gave me last week. The story was that I was recommended by a friend for a job using FrameMaker. I pointed out that although the content is my niche (APIs), I have never professionally used FrameMaker (apart from a couple of home courses I did a while back

mapping that defines the way the entries in the TOCs look

Hi all, Where is the mapping that defines the way the entries in the TOCs look? E.g., If I have an appendix level 1 styles, then where is the mapping that says that AppendixTOC1 is going to be the style name of the Appendix top levels, And where is the info that that is what it looks like? Tia -

mapping that defines the way the entries in the TOCs look

Hi all, Where is the mapping that defines the way the entries in the TOCs look? E.g., If I have an appendix level 1 styles, then where is the mapping that says that AppendixTOC1 is going to be the style name of the Appendix top levels, And where is the info that that is what it looks like? Tia -

converting email addresses to hyperlink

instead of "neda" should've written: "needed" On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Ok, I typed those things in the Command and Syntax fields. > > Now where is the OK (or Set) button ...? > > (I tried clicking on *Make View

converting email addresses to hyperlink

wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:27:57 +0200, "Avraham Makeler" > wrote: > > >I have an email address in the document, e.g., name at company.com > > > >How do I convert that email address to a hyperlink so that when the user > >clicks it his default email

converting email addresses to hyperlink

Hi all, I have an email address in the document, e.g., name at company.com How do I convert that email address to a hyperlink so that when the user clicks it his default email client opens? I guess it is "insert hypertext", but wwhere do I go fromn there? Tia, - avi

Re: converting email addresses to hyperlink

instead of "neda" should've written: "needed" On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Ok, I typed those things in the Command and Syntax fields. > > Now where is the OK (or Set) button ...? > > (I tried clicking on *Make View

Re: converting email addresses to hyperlink

wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:27:57 +0200, "Avraham Makeler" > wrote: > > >I have an email address in the document, e.g., n...@company.com > > > >How do I convert that email address to a hyperlink so that when the user > >clicks it his default email

converting email addresses to hyperlink

Hi all, I have an email address in the document, e.g., n...@company.com How do I convert that email address to a hyperlink so that when the user clicks it his default email client opens? I guess it is "insert hypertext", but wwhere do I go fromn there? Tia, - avi _

How can I Find+Replace local formatting to a (Char) style

Ok, I see now how in the Find window, you specify Character format > Blue and Underline. But I still don't see how you specify the new style to apply to all the hits you get from the Find. Thanks, - avi On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Thanks. > &g

macros and keyboard shortcuts

08 at 5:29 PM, Stuart Rogers < srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com> wrote: > Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I remember that years ago, FrameMaker - Windows (when I last used it for a >> while) did not provide macros and neither did it allow you

Correction to [ Re: How can I Find+Replace local formatting to a (Char) style ]

Corrections: 1. "their" should be "there" 2. I need to also remove locally applied fonts so that the font becoems that of the underlying paragraph formatting. Tia, - avi On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Hi all, > > Looks like the pr

How can I Find+Replace local formatting to a (Char) style

Hi all, Looks like the previous guy on my docs applied local formatting to hyperlinks to color them blue and underline them. What's worse, their often doesn't match the surroundinging text. How can I find all text that is blue (and optionally underlined) and delete it and apply a Character style,

Re: How can I Find+Replace local formatting to a (Char) style

Ok, I see now how in the Find window, you specify Character format > Blue and Underline. But I still don't see how you specify the new style to apply to all the hits you get from the Find. Thanks, - avi On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Thanks. > &g

macros and keyboard shortcuts

Hi all, I remember that years ago, FrameMaker - Windows (when I last used it for a while) did not provide macros and neither did it allow you to assign keyboard shortcuts to styles. Has there been any improvement in this? v7 ? v8? (Then, I used QuickMacros, an excellent Windows macro programming

How can I highlight/shade text ?

Hi all, How can I highlight/shade text ? - on a charchater basis - on a paragraph basis Thanks, - avi

Re: macros and keyboard shortcuts

08 at 5:29 PM, Stuart Rogers < srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com> wrote: > Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I remember that years ago, FrameMaker - Windows (when I last used it for a >> while) did not provide macros and neither did it allow you

Correction to [ Re: How can I Find+Replace local formatting to a (Char) style ]

Corrections: 1. "their" should be "there" 2. I need to also remove locally applied fonts so that the font becoems that of the underlying paragraph formatting. Tia, - avi On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Hi all, > > Looks like the pr

How can I Find+Replace local formatting to a (Char) style

Hi all, Looks like the previous guy on my docs applied local formatting to hyperlinks to color them blue and underline them. What's worse, their often doesn't match the surroundinging text. How can I find all text that is blue (and optionally underlined) and delete it and apply a Character style,

macros and keyboard shortcuts

Hi all, I remember that years ago, FrameMaker - Windows (when I last used it for a while) did not provide macros and neither did it allow you to assign keyboard shortcuts to styles. Has there been any improvement in this? v7 ? v8? (Then, I used QuickMacros, an excellent Windows macro programming

How can I highlight/shade text ?

Hi all, How can I highlight/shade text ? - on a charchater basis - on a paragraph basis Thanks, - avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send

Automatic way of changing the case of words

Thanks, all. Great! avi On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there an automatic way of changing the case of words, e.g., by using a > shortcut key to 'toggle' a word through upper case, mixed case, and lower > cas

Re: Automatic way of changing the case of words

Thanks, all. Great! avi On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there an automatic way of changing the case of words, e.g., by using a > shortcut key to 'toggle' a word through upper case, mixed case, and lower > cas

Which files are critical for backing up?

Hi all, My client backs up it FM files to VSS. I need to know which files are critical for backing up. I.e., indicate the suffixes. Thanks, avi

Automatic way of changing the case of words

Hi all, Is there an automatic way of changing the case of words, e.g., by using a shortcut key to 'toggle' a word through upper case, mixed case, and lower case? Tia, avraham ~~~~~ Avraham Makeler Freelance Technical Writer Tel:

Which files are critical for backing up?

Hi all, My client backs up it FM files to VSS. I need to know which files are critical for backing up. I.e., indicate the suffixes. Thanks, avi ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@l

Automatic way of changing the case of words

Hi all, Is there an automatic way of changing the case of words, e.g., by using a shortcut key to 'toggle' a word through upper case, mixed case, and lower case? Tia, avraham ~~~~~ Avraham Makeler Freelance Technical Writer Tel:

the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

Hi all, I am new to this group, and pretty new to FrameMaker (but I was a Word 2003 guru, so that helps a bit...). My question is ... I am taking over somebody else's document, who is no longer around. Amongst other things, I also have to update the document date and version number. I found the l

the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

Hi all, I am new to this group, and pretty new to FrameMaker (but I was a Word 2003 guru, so that helps a bit...). My question is ... I am taking over somebody else's document, who is no longer around. Amongst other things, I also have to update the document date and version number. I found the l

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