Re: Unwanted re-ordering of files in booked publications

2008-03-05 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I can verify this behavior. on FM7, fully patched, Win2K. My books 
are generally 15+ files. It has been a very costly bug for me. Now 
that I expect it to happen, I check the order of the files in FM 
before generating my final PDF to ensure that neither I nor my client 
has any nasty surprises.

Carol

At 01:00 AM 3/5/2008, you wrote:
found that I can reliably make a file move within today's book by 
renaming another file in the book, from the book window. If I rename 
something and end the renaming by pressing the Enter key, all is 
well. But if I end the renaming by clicking on another filename in 
the book, the file I clicked on moves within the book, at the end of 
FM's rename and save process. The file I renamed stays in place. 
Weird. And very annoying - my instinct is to end the renaming by 
clicking somewhere.

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OT and apology--list owner intervention requested

2008-03-05 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Gary Duncan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] can receive this list's digest 
and he can edit his digest preferences, but messages that he posts to 
framers@lists.frameusers.com never show up on the list. His requests 
for help sent to framers@lists.frameusers.com have gone unanswered. 
If someone can help him, please email him privately.

Carol

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Frame 8's Track Changes feature and other reasons to upgrade

2008-09-09 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I am considering upgrading to Frame 8 primarily because of its Track 
Changes feature. Can someone tell me if change bars can be made to 
automatically display anywhere text has been added or struck out?

Also, I still use Win2000 as my production OS. Will Frame 8 behave well?

And finally, have most of the major bugs in Frame 8 been fixed? If 
not, what are the ones that you feel are still the biggest problems?

Thanks for your always invaluable information!

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searching for a section symbol

2009-03-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins
In a table cell with View-Text Symbols turned on, how do I search 
for a blank space following the last alpha-numeric character and 
preceding the section symbol? I know the keyboard strokes to search 
for the tab symbol, forced return symbol, end-of-paragraph symbol, 
etc., but none of my quick-reference guides define the section symbol. Thanks!

Carol

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Re: searching for a section symbol

2009-03-05 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Stuart, Dick, and all,

When I search for text using the backslash-f term with Wildcards 
turned on, I receive a message that The item you are searching for 
requires text in the Find text box. When I precede the backslash-f 
term with a space, then I find every space in the entire doc--not 
just the ones at the end of table cells. The same result occurs if I 
use the string [0-9] \f or [a-z] \f  I'm using Frame 7 on a Win2K 
system. Someone indicated having the same problem on an XP system as 
well. So searching for an end of table cell symbol may indeed not be possible.

To the others who replied (thank you!), I wasn't looking for an end 
of paragraph symbol (\p) or a typographic section symbol (Alt-0167), 
or a forced-return symbol (\r).

Carol

At 08:16 AM 3/5/2009, Stuart Rogers wrote:
It's actually called an end of flow symbol or end of table cell 
symbol, and the wildcard to use is \f.  Search for ' \f' without the 
single quotes.  See the Help topic, Using wildcards in a search.

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Re: searching for a section symbol

2009-03-05 Thread Carol J. Elkins
You are brilliant, Stuart! The space $ string is what I needed.

Carol

At 11:59 AM 3/5/2009, Stuart Rogers wrote:
However, you might be able to work with ' $' (space, dollar sign) 
with wildcards turned on.  That finds a space at the end of a 
paragraph or cell (not the end of a line, as the Help says) -- also 
throughout the whole doc., not just tables.  Depending on your 
document, it could help...

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Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

2009-04-27 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of 
chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc 
begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to 
define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual 
PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every 
couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and 
manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way?

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Re: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

2009-04-27 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Thanks Art and Jeremy. You definitely summed up my problem well. A 
Frameuser wrote me offline to suggest that ARTS PDF Split  Merge 
Lite would do the job by splitting at the bookmark level. Because I 
use two other ARTS plugins for PDFs, I have confidence in the 
company, so that is probably a good solution.

Carol

At 02:54 PM 4/27/2009, Art Campbell wrote:
If I'm hearing you correctly, you have chapter level Frame files made
up of small documents concatenated together. And you have a book
containing a herd of these chapters. And you want to output the most
finely-grained level as individual PDFs, right?

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Can Word identify graphic file names?

2009-06-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I've been given a CD with over 1500 graphic files of all formats on 
it. These graphics are used in a MSWord-formatted manual that I need 
to convert to FrameMaker. Unlike FrameMaker, which can easily 
generate a list of external files used and will also display the 
filename of each referenced graphic, to my knowledge there is no way 
to determine the filename of any graphic used in a Word doc.

I can easily generate a thumbnail catalog of the graphic files on the 
CD using Photoshop so that I can visually locate each photo in the 
manual. But geez I so seriously do not want to have to do that. Does 
anyone know a workaround in Word that will help me identify all of 
these graphic files? A macro? I am not a Word guru so all help is appreciated.

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Re: Can Word identify graphic file names?

2009-06-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Thanks to the folks who suggested that I convert the Word docs to 
HTML to obtain the filenames for the graphics. If I remember, that 
was a trick useful when the original graphics are not available 
because saving to HTML causes Word to convert the graphics to gifs 
and jpgs.  But in doing so, the HTML then references the converted 
file's filename, not the filename of the graphic actually used in the 
Word doc. Having gifs and jpgs of the graphics doesn't help me much 
because I need to be able to use the .eps and .tif files given to me on the CD.

Is there something I should be doing to force Word to save the 
filename of the graphics? It doesn't seem to matter if I copy and 
paste a graphic or insert it by navigating to the file (sorta 
equivalent to Frame's importing by reference)--Word 2000 and Word 
2003 still convert the file when saving as HTML.

Carol

Save the file to html and then open it in Notepad.

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PDF bookmarks don't show em dashes and quotation marks

2009-12-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Framers, I've searched the archives and Adobe's Knowledgebase, and 
asked Dov, Schlomo, and Rick Q and am now querying your collective 
wisdom before I file a bug report or spend a half-day trying to talk 
to Adobe support overseas:

(all programs are part of TCS installed on a Win7 OS; all files are 
printed to Adobe PDF postscript printer driver and distilled)
FrameMaker v9.0p250
AcrobatProExtended v9.2.0
Adobe Distiller Pro Extended v9.2.0124

Bookmarks of document titles created in Frame9 containing em dashes, 
quotation marks, degree symbols, etc.,  fail to display the correct 
characters. Bookmarks of docs created in Frame7 do not have this 
problem. For instance,

Frame7: M-601 Hose, Wrapped, Air Brake, End Hose
Frame9: M-601 Hose, Wrapped, Air Brake, ,AuEnd Hose,Au

Frame7: M-619 Brake Cylinder Line Hose Assemblies-Performance Requirements
Frame9: M-619 Brake Cylinder Line Hose Assemblies,AiPerformance Requirements

I've determined that this is a Framemaker9 problem instead of an 
Acrobat9 problem.
~I created a document in Frame7 and distilled it in both Distiller 7 
and 9. The bookmarks display correctly. (Well, degree symbols don't 
display correctly, but that is a long-standing problem.)
~I created a document in Frame9 and distilled it in both Distiller 7 
and 9 and the bookmarks DO NOT display correctly in either PDF file.

Has anyone seen this problem on their Frame9 set-up? And fixed it?

Carol

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Paragraph Designer freezes

2010-04-02 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Frame 9.0p250 on Win7 64-bit with 12 whopping GB of RAM
Is anyone besides me experiencing a total freeze on the paragraph 
designer (e.g., can't move from one property icon to another property 
icon; can't apply; can't update all, etc.). This just started 
happening a couple of weeks ago. It is resolved by closing down Frame 
and restarting the program. Within a few minutes, the problem 
returns. Very annoying and time consuming, especially while I am 
designing templates. Any ideas?


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Re: Paragraph Designer freezes

2010-04-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Hi Shlomo,

So far, five people has responded to my email indicating that they, 
too, experience this problem with some regularity.  Neither they nor 
I have been able to identify any specific sequence that triggers the 
freeze. However, yours is the first information I've received that 
suggests a workaround. Like you, I know for sure that it freezes when 
I'm adjusting tab stops with the ruler. I will pay attention to what 
set of properties is displayed when the freeze happens. If I can 
avoid a freeze by keeping Basic properties on top, that would be very 
helpful. Thanks for the suggestion, Shlomo.


Carol


At 12:15 AM 4/4/2010, Shlomo Perets wrote:

Carol,

You wrote:


Frame 9.0p250 on Win7 64-bit with 12 whopping GB of RAM
Is anyone besides me experiencing a total freeze on the paragraph
designer (e.g., can't move from one property icon to another property
icon; can't apply; can't update all, etc.). This just started
happening a couple of weeks ago. It is resolved by closing down Frame
and restarting the program. Within a few minutes, the problem returns.
Very annoying and time consuming, especially while I am designing
templates. Any ideas?


This problem was quite common with early releases of FM9.0.

Can you identify any specific sequence that leads to this freeze?

With the latest patch for FM9 (9.0p250), I consistently have this 
problem when adjusting tab stops or indents using the ruler, with 
the paragraph designer showing any set of properties other than 
Basic.  I usually prefer to set/adjust tabs visually, then Update 
All (using the paragraph designer or through a keyboard shortcut). 
Until this bug is fixed, switching the paragraph designer to the 
Basic set of properties first, before adjusting tabs/indents using 
the ruler, consistently serves as a workaround.


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Incrementing, Balloon-type Numbered List pgf

2010-04-14 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Jim, try the font named CombiNumerals Pro at 
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fontsite/combi-numerals-pro/  But it 
won't necessarily work in an autonumbered paratag. The circled 
numbers are created by key combinations. You would need to manually 
number the steps using the font.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 4/14/2010, you wrote:
I know I can make a pgf with an individual webding character balloon 
number, but my instructions will get past 10 in several tasks, so I 
don't want to create twenty-some pgfs.


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Re: Rely on system fonts only

2010-05-12 Thread Carol J. Elkins

At 11:00 AM 5/12/2010, you wrote:
These are for Windows XP, SP3. If Windows 7 is much different, maybe 
someone can revise these.



Wow, I had no idea I had to change it in TWO places. It's bad enough 
that it seems to reset every time Adobe does an automatic update. 
Here are the instructions for doing this in Windows 7:


1. Click Start--Devices and Printers (can also be accessed from the 
Control Panel).

2. Right-click the Adobe PDF icon.
3. Select Printing Preferences.
4. Select the Adobe PDF Settings tab.
5. Clear the box preceding Rely on system fonts only; do not use 
document fonts. Click OK.


6. Right-click the Adobe PDF icon again.
7. Select Printer Properties.
8. Select the Advanced tab.
9. Click the Printing Defaults... button at the bottom.
10. Select the Adobe PDF Settings tab.
11. Clear the box preceding Rely on system fonts only; do not use 
document fonts. Click OK twice.


12. Repeat when Adobe next does an automatic update.


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Keyboard shortcuts to pod elements

2010-06-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I use a programmable keyboard to whiz through repetitive tasks (some 
of you may use a macro recorder to accomplish the same thing). Prior 
to the new Pod interface in Frame 9, I had no trouble using 
keystrokes to navigate to specific fields in a window. Frame made 
this easy by assigning Alt-code shortcuts. The new pod interface 
leaves me frustrated and helpless. For example, in the 
Cross-reference Pod, I can find no way to navigate to the Paragraph 
Tag or Paragraph Number field so that I can select something from 
either list. The only fields that have Alt-code shortcuts are 
Document, Go to Source, Format, Edit Format, and Convert to Text.


Do any of you who routinely work deep in Frame's bowels know if there 
is a list of field-specific keyboard shortcuts? (Note that I am not 
asking about ESC-sequence shortcuts as were recently discussed on 
this list.) I hate this loss in functionality by upgrading to a 
newer product.


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Framemaker desktop to Framemaker Server, Adobe Content Server, Sharepoint, and Sitecore

2010-10-14 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Fellow Framers,

Background: I'm an independent business owner who manages the 
publication and maintenance of large suites of documentation for 
clients using unstructured Framemaker and Acrobat via Adobe TechComm 
Suite loaded on a Windows7 desktop. {whew!} All files are stored on 
my own local computers, and I have well-developed workflow, backup, 
and version control systems in place. One particular long-time client 
produces standards and specifications that regulate a branch of the 
transportation industry. The documents are developed at a committee 
level and given to me in whatever format they are most comfortable 
using for knowledge transfer; usually Word or PDF markup.  I have 
never seen a need for this client to consider an XML output, and my 
client would probably resist the recommendation if I made it. My 
product is PDF files.


Problem: This client needs to develop a more robust ecommerce 
solution for their documents. Currently the docs are distributed via 
hardcopy or as PDFs via CD and subscription download. This client's 
parent company has enlisted the services of a Web development company 
who is recommending that my client employ some combination of 
Framemaker Server, Adobe Content Server, Sharepoint, and Sitecore. I 
haven't quite figured out yet what that combination might be because 
today was the first I've heard about it. The good news is that my 
client is requiring my presence and input even in the early 
discussions about this project. I want my input to be valuable and to 
represent my client's best interests, and I want to be able to help 
steer them through all of this.


Questions: I have done some preliminary digging into Framemaker 
Server and Adobe Content Server. I have a fair grasp of Sharepoint's 
capabilities, and zero knowledge about Sitecore. I have minimal 
experience with Framemaker's structured environment, although I've 
taken several workshops. I'd like to hear from any of you whose 
Framemaker documentation cycle involves any combination of these 
products. Did that involvement require a transition from a desktop 
environment to a server environment? How has it changed your 
workflow? As an independent business, what changes did you need to 
make to your own office computing set-up? How did Framemaker behave? 
What is the relationship of these products to one another and to 
Framemaker? What were the benefits? What were the consequences?


These may not be the right questions to ask, but I was a bit 
broad-sided by the Web development company's sudden discussion of 
these tools, and I know that this group of Framers can be gentle with 
folks who haven't learned enough yet to ask intelligent questions. If 
there are better questions to ask, I know I can trust you to suggest them.


Carol

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On-Demand Watermarks in PDF

2011-01-21 Thread Carol J. Elkins
One of my clients would like the PDFs that I generate from Frame to 
NOT display a watermark when viewed but to PRINT with a watermark 
intact. Does anyone know of an application or whatever that can 
provide this functionality? I already use ARTS PDF Stamper to apply 
watermarks, but that is not what this question is about. I think this 
would have to be an add-on of some kind to Acrobat or a server-based 
program. I've also posted this question to Planet PDF; if you can 
recommend a better resource, please let me know.


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Sharepoint links in a Frame doc

2011-01-27 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Thanks to everyone for pointing out Acrobat's watermark feature. I 
think it will be perfect for applying a watermark that can't be 
viewed until the document is printed.


The same client wanting the watermark wants his PDF documents to 
contain Sharepoint links to other docs (tiffs, Word docs, etc.) I 
told him that I THOUGHT I could create hypertext links in Frame (to 
avoid post-production re-work on the PDF) as long as I had the full 
path statement to the target document. I don't have any experience 
with Sharepoint. Do you know if my linking strategy will work or if 
there is a better way to do it?


Carol

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Re: Sharepoint links in a Frame doc

2011-01-27 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Ah, see that's why I asked. I don't know anything about Sharepoint, 
so I didn't know those were required. If a person is already logged 
in, do they still need to provide that information?


My client planned to make the links via Acrobat, so I suspect that if 
he can link from Acrobat, I can link from Framemaker, providing I 
have a full path statement. Is that what  you do?


Carol

At 01:46 PM 1/27/2011, you wrote:

How would you include the access credentials (login and password) in the URL?

Our Sharepoint installation requires someone to be defined in SP as
authorized. Would that be an issue?

 The same client wanting the watermark wants his PDF documents to contain
 Sharepoint links to other docs (tiffs, Word docs, etc.) I told him that I
 THOUGHT I could create hypertext links in Frame (to avoid post-production
 re-work on the PDF) as long as I had the full path statement to the target
 document. I don't have any experience with Sharepoint. Do you know if my
 linking strategy will work or if there is a better way to do it?
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Revision marks (bars)

2011-02-22 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I create a character tag that I routinely label zz:change_bar. I'll 
explain why later. The character tag sets everything AS IS except I 
enable the change bars option.


Select each word or paragraph that you want to be marked with change 
bars and apply the character tag.


When you are ready to remove the change bars, search for the 
character tag entitled zz:change_bar to find all instances and select 
the Default Font option in the Character catalog to remove the tag. 
To ensure that you have removed all the zz: tags, select 
FormatDocumentChange BarsClear All Change Bars. This is important 
because often the zz: tag will remain on any paragraph that contains 
an override.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 2/22/2011, you wrote:
I would really like to make the use of revision bars to indicate 
changes made to a document that I am working on. I am aware of 
automatic change bars. I don't think this is the best option because 
it indicates all changes with a revision bar. I would like to be 
able to handle which revisions get highlighted as a change. I seem 
to recall the use of character tag or something along those lines 
but that method seemed to have some drawbacks. The criteria that is 
most important to me is being able to remove the revisions marks 
when going from version 2 to 3 so that the next set of revision 
marks only indicates the changes in version 3 and not versions 2 and 
3. Has someone developed a bulletproof process or methodology for 
handling revisions to documents?


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Web site with Adobe customer help phone numbers

2011-03-18 Thread Carol J. Elkins
In case anyone is struggling to reach someone at Adobe for any 
reason, I just learned about the following Web site that provides 
phone numbers for a lot of companies worldwide. The link goes 
directly to the Adobe Systems Customer Help phone numbers.


http://gethuman.com/Adobe_Systems-customer-service_12.html

Note that Customer Service phone #2 is for Licensing. There have been 
a lot of questions on this list recently about licensing and activation.


HTH. If not, let us know.

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OT: Does anyone have an old InDesign template folder?

2011-07-07 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Framers, I'm teaching myself InDesign CS5, and as of version CS4, 
Adobe no longer provides a folder of sample templates. When I taught 
myself Framemaker 200 years ago, I found their well-designed 
templates to be an excellent point of reference and helped me make 
better decisions about the set-up of my personally designed 
templates. If anyone would be willing to share their Template folder 
from an older version of InDesign, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!


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OT: Follow-up to Does anyone have an old InDesign template folder?

2011-07-22 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Follow-up: Well, the reason I couldn't find anyplace on the entire 
Internet that had a copy of the old InDesign CS4 Template folder is 
because Adobe wouldn't release it. This morning, InDesignSecrets.com 
announced that after a year of wrangling with Adobe, they were 
finally given permission to distribute those templates on their site.

http://indesignsecrets.com/indesign-templates

Hope this helps anyone else wanting good FREE InDesign templates.
Carol

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Framers, I'm teaching myself InDesign CS5, and as of version CS4, 
Adobe no longer provides a folder of sample templates. When I taught 
myself Framemaker 200 years ago, I found their well-designed 
templates to be an excellent point of reference and helped me make 
better decisions about the set-up of my personally designed 
templates. If anyone would be willing to share their Template folder 
from an older version of InDesign, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!


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Bookmarks and zoom level in PDF

2011-08-29 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I think I should know how to fix this but apparently not. I'm using 
Acrobat 9 Pro Extended v 9.4.1. Problem: Bookmarks that I've manually 
created in a PDF have a different zoom than the bookmarks set for the 
PDF in Framemaker. For example, I may be viewing a page that displays 
at 100% and then click a bookmark and the resulting page displays as 
Fit Height. Setting the View-Zoom level for the document doesn't 
stick when you click a bookmark to a different page.


Apparently Acrobat remembers whatever zoom was in effect when the 
bookmark was created instead of the default zoom level set for the 
document. What a pain. So now I have a 242-page PDF containing 
several hundred bookmarks that were created via Framemaker and by 
manually adding them to the PDF (at various zoom levels because how 
was I to know?) and the zoom hops about from one setting to another. 
Seriously irritating. I've tried selecting all of the bookmarks at 
one time and resetting the zoom level in Properties, but doing that 
also sets every bookmark to target one single page of your choice, 
thus defeating the purpose of bookmarks.


Is there some setting that I'm missing when creating bookmarks that 
will apply the same default zoom to each page (so that I don't have 
to remember to be in the desired zoom when I create the bookmark)? 
And is there a way to change the zoom in my 242-page PDF so that all 
pages have the same zoom?


Carol

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Re: screwy x-ref formatting

2011-10-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I haven't seen a response to this, so I wanted to 
comment that I have this happen in one particular 
book as well. But unlike John's experience where 
his entire xref turns blue, every time I 
regenerate, I lose the blue character formatting 
in some, but not all, of the xrefs. But when I 
close down the book and reopen it, all the xrefs 
are correctly formatted once again. A sample xref format would be

 X-refBlueFigure\ $paranumonly on\ page\ $chapnum–$pagenum

I can't narrow the problem down to any specific 
xref format, and I confess that because reopening 
the book solves the problem, I haven't really 
pursued a fix. My system has 8 GB of RAM, so 
resources shouldn't be a problem. Very 
frustrating. It would be great if anyone can shed 
some light on this. I'm using Frame9 on Win7, fully patched.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 9/30/2011, you wrote:

I have a simple x-ref that works fine in 7 books and screwy in an eight book.
 Blue$paratext /on page $pagenum
usually produces the desired blue text for the 
title and plain text for the page number, but in 
the errant book the entire x-ref is blue. When I 
update the x-ref, it behaves properly. But when 
I update all x-refs in the book, it reverts to the all-blue look.


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installing PDF printer driver

2011-10-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Framers, I can't find an answer in the archives so hope you can help. 
Via my TechCommSuite 2 license, I've never had a problem installing 
Acrobat Pro any version on any computer before, and the PDF printer 
driver always shows up in the list of available printers. This hasn't 
happened on my new laptop (running Win7), perhaps because I don't 
have a printer directly connected to it (don't know why that would 
matter, though). Although Acrobat 9 Pro Extended installed correctly 
on the laptop, the PDF printer driver isn't in the list of printers. 
Therefore, I cannot print to the PDF driver and generate a PDF via Distiller.


I think I need to manually install the appropriate PPD file, but I 
appear to be having a senior moment. I don't know which PPD file to 
install or how to go about doing it. (Did it used to be this complex 
in earlier Windows versions?) I thought I could look on my desktop 
computer to see what PPD is in use there, but there are a zillion PPD 
files there and I can't really determine which one I should be 
working with. The Win7 Control Panel doesn't show me which driver is 
in use either. I'm probably making this much harder than it needs to 
be, and forgive me in advance if I'm not using the correct 
terminology. Can anyone help?


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Re: installing PDF printer driver

2011-10-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Correct. The only printers that are listed in the Control Panel's 
Printers area are one installed by Snag-It and the Dell printer that 
my network shares. (The guy who helps manage my network and router 
installed that Dell printer to the laptop.)


Carol

At 01:03 PM 10/23/2011, you wrote:

Are you saying there are no logical Acrobat printers in your Printers
folder after a normal  install?


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Acrobat 9 Pro can't read out loud

2011-12-08 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I've always been able to use Acrobat's Read Out Loud feature to 
help me proof complex documents by having Acrobat read the PDF aloud 
while I read the original to check for discrepancies. Since upgrading 
to Acrobat 9 Pro Extended version 9.4.6 on Windows 7, I can't get the 
Read Out Loud feature to work. The document is fully tagged, the 
sound and speakers are working correctly. After activating the Read 
Out Loud feature (View-Read Out Loud-Activate Read Out Loud), when 
I select any of the options (e.g., Read This Page Only or Read to End 
of Document), Acrobat crashes. It doesn't matter if I'm using a PDF 
generated from Framemaker or one downloaded from Adobe's site.


I've read through Adobe's Help forums and can't find a solution. Has 
anyone had and successfully resolved this problem?:


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OT: New Frame 10 license for sale

2012-02-28 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I have a brand new full retail Framemaker 10 Windows license for 
sale. It is still in its shrink-wrapped box. It is not an upgrade, 
OEM, or academic license. Retail price is $999. I'm offering it for 
$499. Contact me off-list if you are interested.


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OT: SOLD--New Frame 10 license for sale

2012-02-28 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Wow, that was quick! Three people responded within 45 minutes. This 
list is absolutely amazing. Thanks!


Carol


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Re: FrameMaker 9 Find not Finding

2012-03-18 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I'm running Frame 9 on Win7 and have experienced a lot of 
unreliability in Frame's Find function. I don't use conditional text 
or text insets, and the text I'm trying to find is not a variable or 
specially formatted. Frame is just blind to it sometimes. I can 
position the cursor immediately before the text I'm searching for and 
Frame says it's not there. There is no consistency or predictability 
to this behavior. It is just something I've had to accept as a head-scratcher.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 3/17/2012, you wrote:

This is a very frustrating thing.
My find command does no longer find what it's supposed to!
I've checked all the settings in the Find box, like case, and book, 
and simple stuff.


Sometimes it finds half the instances, but not all. sometimes it 
finds it if I put the cursor on the same page.

Sometimes it does nothing.

I've tried fixing and even a full reinstall.

I will be switching from XP to Windows soon. Any idea if this will 
make the problem better or worse?


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Re: FM 10 - crashes and PDF bookmark settings

2012-04-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Ah, that does explain my similar experience. I thought it was just me 
doing something wrong. I'm in FM9 now and have discovered that you do 
indeed need to select all files in the book and then set the job 
options. If I remember correctly, in FM8, all you had to do was 
select the book file.


And I think that you need to have ALL of the paragraph tags that you 
designate as bookmarks defined in that first file. It may be voodoo, 
but I couldn't get the bookmarks I needed, despite having defined 
them in the PDF job options, until I had planted all of the 
appropriate paragraph tags in that first file (the coverpage in this case).


Carol

At 11:00 AM 4/4/2012, you wrote:

Subject:
Message: 5

In FM10, at least, you have to set each .fm file individually. You can
do that with one command: open the book file, select all files, bring
up the PDF options, set job options.

Did that setting used to be at the book level? I don't remember having
had to do that in FM8 and earlier.


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how to italicize every instance of certain words

2012-06-25 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words 
and phrases in a document are always italicized whenever they are 
used. Perhaps someone knows of a script that will do this. If not, 
I'll ask Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would be 
an external master list of the words to be italicized. When opened, 
the working file would access the master list of words and make sure 
that any word in the list is italicized when it appears in the 
working document. I should be able to add to the master list of 
words; I'm not concerned about what happens if I delete a word from 
the master list.


Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every 
time a working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do 
anything more than type a word in the working document for it to be 
recognized as needing italics. Although I have Silicon Prairie's 
Autotext add-on, I don't think that it does what I need. I have a 
vague memory of MSWord or some elderly word processor (the only kind 
I'm familiar with since I'm elderly) having this functionality.


Any ideas?

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RE: how to italicize every instance of certain words

2012-06-26 Thread Carol J. Elkins
As I indicated in the restrictions, I don't want to do more than 
type the word. I'm aware that variables would work, but there are a 
zillion instances of these words and I do not want to locate and 
insert a variable for each instance. For this exercise, I was hoping 
to learn about scripts, add-ons, or programs that work external to 
Framemaker. Thanks, though.


Carol

At 12:02 PM 6/26/2012, Laurie Little wrote:

Couldn't you just use variables?


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Adding a column to multiple tables

2012-07-21 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Tammy, if you have Shlomo Peret's enhanced toolbar, one of its tools 
is to copy a table width to the clipboard. (If I'm mistkane here and 
is a Frame feature, I apologize. I've copied my .ini file and 
plug-ins from so many versions of FM I no longer know which tool goes 
with what plugin.)


So if I were you, I'd make one pass through the tables and add a row 
to each table using a keyboard macro; then I'd make a second pass 
through the tables, select the right-most column, and paste the width 
from the clipboard. It might save a few mouse-clicks.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 7/21/2012, you wrote:
have a two chapters in a guide that I am currently working on that 
have over 100 tables each. The format for the tables was supposedly 
locked down, but now, I have been asked to add an additional column 
to every table. It would be the last (right-most column) in the 
table and it must have  width of 1.25. Is there a way to 
semi-automate this process as at all in Framemaker? If I were 
copying rows that would be one thing as Framemaker gives you the 
option about the location to paste copied table rows but not w/ 
columns. Right now, I am just pointing and clicking and using the 
Insert column and Resize column options and at this rate, I will 
burn half a day!


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Is there a video demonstrating Word vs Framemaker?

2012-09-17 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Has anyone run across a video that compares Framemaker features to 
MSWord? It would be a great way to quickly educate potential clients 
about the benefits of migrating their documents to Framemaker. If you 
know of such a resource, please share the URL.


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Response from Adobe - Print to .PS issue - Cause and solution

2012-09-27 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Does anyone know if the problem occurs when using the Print Selected 
Files option in unstructured FM11? Or does it only occur when using 
the Print Book option?


Carol

At 11:00 AM 9/27/2012, you wrote:
This issue occurs when a user who is running FrameMaker11 in 
unstructured mode and tries to print a book, which was also created 
in the unstructured mode. This issue is not present when printing a 
Framemaker document, or when FrameMaker is running in structured mode.


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Re: table sort order

2006-03-07 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Good idea, Shlomo. I didn't mention, however, that each of these numbers is 
a cross-reference to an actual document. Therefore, I can't edit the number 
manually unless I open each of the 624 files and change the variable that 
defines that file's document number.


But your idea is so spiffy (especially the part about creating a variable 
named 0) that I'm going to use it on a different project, so thanks!


Carol

At 12:52 PM 3/7/2006 -0800, you wrote:
To fix this manually, you may insert an invisible/non-printing leading 
zeroe/s as necessary in front of the shorter numeric strings.
To make insertion easier, create a NoPrint character format (where the 
color is set to an invisible one), then create a variable named 0, which 
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SOLVED: table sort order

2006-03-09 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Re the table sort order problem wherein Frame sorts alpha-numeric table 
data on specific digits rather than the entire number in the string (e.g., 
M-509, M-5104-, M-512).


Rick Quatro solved this with a slick FrameScript that sorts an 41-page 
table in the blink of an eye.


Thanks everyone for your creative suggestions. I'm always in awe of the 
problem-solving capabilities of this list. If we put the collective talent 
of this list to work on world problems, well


Carol

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Pagemaker to FrameMaker conversion

2006-06-26 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Currently, one of my clients uses a translation vendor (English to Spanish) 
who authors in PageMaker. They've asked me what it would entail to convert 
the PageMaker book to FrameMaker and change to a translation vendor who can 
work in Framemaker.


The book in question is 550 pages and is updated twice a year. I have never 
been involved in any localization project, so I'm pretty naive in this 
area. I have two main questions for Frame folks:


1. Has anyone successfully converted from PageMaker to FrameMaker and, if 
so, what were the gotchas?

2. Can anyone recommend a translation vendor who could manage this conversion?

Thanks, as always, for your help.

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RE: Pagemaker to FrameMaker conversion

2006-06-26 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Hi Mollye,

Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, my client doesn't know what he 
wants other than to reduce the twice yearly expense of printing the Spanish 
version of this book. I maintain this manual in FrameMaker and the gal who 
maintains the Spanish version works in PageMaker. I think my client needs 
to consider a new vendor for the Spanish version. Here are a couple of 
examples of why I think this: She has no experience with graphic formats, 
so she cuts and pastes graphics (the hardcopy version!) on which she has 
overlain the translated callouts. She sends these plus her native PageMaker 
files to the printer and the printer spends hours of table time getting 
them ready for prepress.  I suggested to this gal that she purchase Adobe 
Acrobat and send the PDF files to the printer. This she did. Now she thinks 
that Acrobat is her native application and wants to know how to make the 
changes in the PDF file. sigh


I suggested to my client that we might convert the doc to FrameMaker and 
have a professional manage revisions to the Spanish version. That would, 
at first glimpse, be a better idea than having my FrameMaker version 
translated to Spanish. So my query is really just a preliminary first pass 
at what I might need to consider if I make a recommendation to my client.


Structured Frame is not a practical option for this book.

I have no idea what the doc looks like in PageMaker. The FrameMaker 
template is excellent. Assuming that there is good mapping correlation, is 
there a PageMaker-to-FrameMaker conversion tool that you know of?


I've never heard the term translation memory, so I don't know what to do 
with your comments that used it. Can you explain it a bit more?


Thanks!

Carol


At 05:28 PM 6/26/2006 -0500, Mollye Barrett wrote:

Does the client really want the translation vendor to do the conversion?
Perhaps what they're looking for is a migration plan for converting the
PageMaker to Frame and then working with translation memory. Are all the
languages they require supported by Frame? Do they have a strong template
and/or EDD?

We've worked with many conversions and the gotchas are always, it depends.
The best projects are those with high stylesheet integrity on both sides of
the conversion (of course, these are few and far between!). I'd consider get
them into a structured Frame world, convert PageMaker PDFs to XML and,
import the XML to Frame. A good EDD will handle the formatting and the
client will have minimal upkeep on future revisions.

If they have an existing PageMaker translation memory (full of formatting
tags), their translator may be challenged with this change. As we all know,
there's more to translations than handing off an input file. This is a
strategic decision that carries a significant cost and there are many places
the project could go wrong. So, I'd map out every step of the conversion and
the translation processing before even discussing the process with the
client.

There are lots of good conversion resources and many excellent translators.
Sounds like the client needs someone that can orchestrate the process!


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Re: Any way of applying a custom master page to final even page in component file

2006-11-21 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Headley, I use Silicon Prairie Software's MasterPage Tools to do 
this. I'm really pleased with their product.


http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/

Carol

On 11/21/2006 6:04:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Is there some way to do this automagically?  Or do I have to write a
 FrameScript event routine to check all component files in a book and
 apply/remove the last custom page on Update Book or whatever.  


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Can Frame's default color definitions be changed?

2012-10-16 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Does anyone know if it is possible to change the values of one of 
Framemaker's default color definitions? I'd like to make the Green 
less florescent by darkening it a bit. But when I select Green in the 
Color Definitions list and select a darker color, the Change button 
is dimmed (this only happens for the default colors). So changing any 
of the default colors from the UI doesn't seem to be an option. Any other way?


Carol

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Re: Can Frame's default color definitions be changed?

2012-10-16 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Nope, defining my own colors isn't an option in this case. Working in 
Frame9, I'm importing (not by reference but by creating a copy) an 
Excel file containing Excel's red strikeout and green colors to 
distinguish new and deleted text, so all resulting text is formatted 
as an override to Frame's Body tag. Tagging changed/deleted text in 
hundreds of pages of table rows isn't an option either, so I can't 
use a custom color definition. As Rick pointed out, it looks like 
Frame won't budge on its idea of what green is. Thanks everyone for 
your help.


Carol


At 12:14 PM 10/16/2012, you wrote:
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but won't merely defining the 
green you want as a custom color work for you?


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Re: Can Frame's default color definitions be changed? - a solution

2012-10-17 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Rebecca, you are brilliant! I had assumed that because the imported 
colors were overrides to the paratag, I wouldn't be able to do 
anything to them. It didn't even occur to me that I could search for 
them. I was looking for a much harder solution. Thanks so much for the push.


Carol

At 08:39 PM 10/16/2012, rebecca officer wrote:

You can use FM's Find/Change for this.
Then, in your document:
Define your new colour.
Then click outside the text frame on any page, so you don't have a 
cursor in any text.

Then open Find/Change dialog and select Find Character Format.
The Find Character Format dialog opens and should have everything 
set to As Is. Change the colour to Green and click Set.
Then select Change  To Character Format, make sure everything is 
set to As Is, select the new colour, and click Set.
Then click the Change All button. All instances of Green will 
magically change to your new colour.


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Webworks ePublisher price

2012-11-13 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Sigh. I thought I'd have a look at ePublisher to see how it compares 
price-wise to RoboHelp. Maybe I'm missing something on their Web 
site, but it appears that the only way to find out the price is to 
give them my contact information first via a form. I object to that 
practice on principal. Does anyone know the current cost for 
ePublisher and what the cost of the new version that works with Frame 
11 might be?


Carol

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OT: Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription

2012-12-25 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Fellow Framers, I know that many of  you use other Adobe products in 
addition to Framemaker and I'd like to know your experience if you 
are using Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription for them. I will be 
upgrading from TechCommSuite 2 to TCS4, so the programs that come 
with TCS4 will be taken care of. However, I also use InDesign, 
Freehand, and Photoshop. For $50/month to subscribe to the annual 
plan for Adobe's Creative Cloud, it seems like a bargain to be able 
to maintain current updates to all three of those products plus a 
whole slew of others that I don't currently use. Perhaps I'm 
misunderstanding what they are offering; let me know. And I'm also 
concerned about gotchas that might make me wish I'd never committed 
to a year-long plan that covers so many of the tools that my business 
relies on. What if something goes wrong with one of them?


I'll be making my decision about this in the next week or so and 
would like to hear as many of your stories and experiences as possible.



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Can't import Object styles

2013-01-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Framemaker 11.0.1.382 I'm experimenting with the new Object Styles 
feature. I've determined that I can create a new object style but I 
can't import it into other files as I can do with paragraph and 
character styles via File-Import-Formats. Object Styles isn't a 
listed option, despite what Adobe says on their Help page at 
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WS92ce23f8a8bab2f36a80c197137323b2fd7-7ffc.html


Am I doing something wrong? Does anyone know how to do this other 
than recreating the style manually in every file?


And speaking of File-Import-Formats, in Frame 9, by default all 
formats were selected and you could click the Deselect All button. In 
Frame 11, even though all formats are selected by default, the 
available button is Select All (although it does seem dependent on 
what had been selected when the window was previously used). The only 
way to deselect all is to click the button twice. Can anyone else 
reproduce this behavior?


Does anyone know how to dock the Object Designer alongside the 
Paragraph Design and Character Designer pod/panels? It doesn't seem 
to be dockable.


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RESOLVED: Can't import Object styles

2013-01-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Turns out that I had forgotten that I was using Rick Quatro's 
ImportFormatsSpecial plug-in, and it has some incompatibilities with 
Frame11. Rick will provide anyone using his ImportFormatsSpecial 
plug-in with a replacement ExtendScript if you contact him.


Thanks for everyone's replies. I thought I was going to have to 
reload Frame, which would not have been fun on top of the day I've already had.


Carol
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Framemaker 11.0.1.382 I'm experimenting with the new Object Styles 
feature. I've determined that I can create a new object style but I 
can't import it into other files as I can do with paragraph and 
character styles via File-Import-Formats. Object Styles isn't a 
listed option,


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best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

2013-02-10 Thread Carol J. Elkins

At 11:00 AM 2/10/2013, you wrote:
So I plan to switch to WWP. It fixes the rendering bug with RoboHelp 
9 output in IE8 and the output looks much better than what we've 
been getting from RoboHelp.


I'm about ready to switch to WWP from RoboHelp, too. I uprgraded to 
TechCommSuite 4 a couple weeks ago mainly to take advantage of RH's 
new multi-screen mobile output. I never made it past first base in 
the new RH. I spent a total of 6 hours screensharing with Adobe Tech 
Support to troubleshoot why a linked book from Framemaker11 causes 
RH10 to crash when generating the WebHelp output, they simply stopped 
communicating with me. They cannot replicate the crash on their end 
using my files. I can replicate it on two stand-alone computers in my 
office, one with a fresh, default install of TechCommSuite4. I asked 
them to try my files on a clean install on a stand-alone workstation 
and haven't heard anything more for a week.


While waiting for Adobe to not respond, I spent another two days 
rebuilding, letter by letter, the Frame file that was causing the 
crash and discovered that a space between an autonumbered chapter 
paragraph tag (i.e., Chapter{space}1)  was the culprit. If I changed 
the space to a hardspace, the RH project generated without a hitch. 
There are more details, but they aren't important. What is important 
is that even though I've emailed Adobe tech support, left voice mails 
with the Level 2 support person, and logged the information in 
Adobe's case file for my issue, I've heard nothing more from them.


Last November, I asked the sales rep at WWP to demo their Reverb 
product using some sample files of this same project I'm working on, 
and the output was much nicer for the mobile device formats. RoboHelp 
builds separate output for each mobile device, e.g., one each for 
Android Galaxy, Android Phone, iPad, iPhone, and Kindle. In contrast, 
WWP uses HTML5 and css to create responsive design in a single output 
that scales well regardless of the device. I'm not sure how they do 
it, but it looks good and I'm hoping that it will be easier to use than RH.


Buying a WWP license is expensive, especially on top of the cost of 
upgrading to TechCommSuite 4. But I've lost four entire days of 
income trying to cooperate with Adobe Tech Support, not getting 
anywhere, and ultimately being abandoned without so much as a sorry 
we can't help you we've got to stop now.


Thanks for letting me whine. If anyone has actually used both WWP and 
RH for mobile (multiscreen) output, I'd be interested in knowing how 
the two programs stack up against each other in real life. (That 
actually was the real point of my email.)


Carol


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Re: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

2013-02-11 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Matt, yes I am using RH's Multiscreen output. I'm annoyed at the 
differences in the out-of-box options for the various device outputs. 
There doesn't appear to be a unified set that retains the same 
color scheme or other skin characteristics. But my biggest whine is 
that RH10 treats the device outputs as separate entities with a 
separate folder for each output device. There is a separate index.htm 
file for each output device. And within each device folder, the 
entire set of templates for each device is repeated.  For example, 
here is a simplified folder structure to illustrate:

!ISSL!
--Multiscreen_HTML5
|android_galaxy_tab
--|index.html plus my project files
--|template
-|Android_Phone_Layout
|all PNG files for the layout
|-Desktop_Knowledge
|all PNG files for the layout
-|iPad_Layout
|all PNG files for the layout
-|iPhone_Layout
|all PNG files for the layout
-|Kindle_Fire_Layout
|all PNG files for the layout
-|resources
-|scripts
--|whxdata
|android_phone
--|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
|desktop
--|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
|ipad
---|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
---|iphone
--|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
|kindle_fire

I don't understand why the redundancy is necessary. So what I'd like 
to know is whether or not WWP's output contains this redundancy or 
whether they build all of this into one separate HTML5 and one 
separate css. It seems to me that as the device market expands and 
new devices are added, RH will be limited by what it is currently 
configured for. What I see in WWP suggests that their coding will be 
truly responsive and flexible regardless of the device that 
displays the output. If I'm wrong here about either product, let me 
know. That's what I'm trying to determine.


Carol

At 09:38 AM 2/11/2013, you wrote:

@Carol, are you using RH's HTML5 SSL, called Multiscreen?

Although you can still create SSL's per device, using Mulitscreen as 
your SSL produces only one set of HTML files, with a single CSS3 to 
do exactly what you mentioned in your post.


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Re: Frame 11 Appearance

2013-02-20 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I'm so glad other people have commented about their dislike of this 
feature. I hate it too. But it isn't that the text isn't sharp, 
it's that it has a white drop-shadow. Adobe, please make this go away 
on the next version or tell us if we can change it ourselves. It has 
made it very difficult to read the text in my tabs.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 2/20/2013, you wrote:

Subject: Re: Frame 11 Appearance
Message: 17

Under Edit  Preferences you can select the monitor size. That might 
sharpen the text on the tabs.



Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
On 20-Feb-13 3:50 PM, Joel wrote:

I am on Windows 7, using Frame 11.
Ever since moving to Win 7 and Frame 11, the appearance of my tabs 
is really ugly. For example:


Not sure if you can tell from this, but the fonts are highlighted 
and shadowed in a strange way. Does anyone know if this is a Frame 
or a Windows setting? Changing Windows settings hasn't seemed to 
affect this. Thanks,


Joel


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RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Nancy, consider creating markers for all headings, regardless of 
whether you plan to use them or not. Let RoboHelp break them into 
topics. Then in your RoboHelp TOC and browse sequences, just include 
the topics that you want. Yes, the unwanted ones will go along for 
the ride when the file is generated, but users won't know they are 
there because neither the TOC nor the browse sequence uses them.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 3/1/2013, you wrote:

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Subject: Re: RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH
Message: 25

Dang, I think.

Let's say I have a longish chapter:

Chapter Title
Internal TOC
Heading 1 Intro
Heading 2
Heading 2
Heading 2
Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 2
Heading 2
Let's say that, of all of that content, the only content I want to 
transform into .html topic files are the sections with asterisks:


Chapter Title
Internal TOC
**Heading 1 Intro
**Heading 2
Heading 2
Heading 2
Heading 1
Heading 2
*Heading 2
Heading 2
 Let's further say that I want to combine the two sections preceded 
by ** into one .html topic file, and I also want to do the same 
with the two sections preceded by .


In other words, I want to carve information out of the larger 
chapter and only convert that carved-out info into online help.


I was hoping I could insert a marker called, say, Customer Help 
Marker Start at the beginning of each chunk and a marker called 
Custom Help  Marker End at the end, thus identifying each new .html 
topic that way, but that is not to be, eh?


Instead, I need to use a combination of conditional text and custom 
markers to get the effects I want.


Does that sum it up?

Thanks.

--Nancy


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Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-03 Thread Carol J. Elkins
There is a discussion of how to use markers in Framemaker to control 
page breaks in RoboHelp at

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS9F91508B-AC18-4b72-8FFB-B639F73F4741.html

As with most things, there are many ways to achieve the desired 
outcome. Often combinations of ways work well. I haven't used the 
markers solution yet, but it seems to me to be a better and easier 
approach than trying to maintain many different paragraph styles in 
Framemaker. One marker, such as PageBreak, applied to the FM files 
everywhere you want RH to break a page would seem to me to be easier 
to apply than changing paragraph tags. I try to keep my paragraph 
catalog as slim as possible. Just my thoughts.


Carol

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Message: 8

 Carol, are you speaking of custom Markers that RH could then look 
for? I like the idea of just removing unwanted topics, sounds very painless!


--Nancy



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Multiscreen HTML Output - making changes to the default Desktop output

2013-04-25 Thread Carol J. Elkins

There are several problems with the HTML5 layouts supplied with RH10:
~They are not consistently formatted across 
mobile device layouts; a client wanting output 
for all mobile devices will have to put up with 
different color schemes, different branding, 
etc. for each device he wants to output to.
~Adobe admits that they expected the RH10 user to 
have their IT department modify the HTML5. Well, 
we small and 1-person companies have no IT department.
~There is precious little documentation that 
explains how to edit the HTML5 files. Vikram 
Verma, the RoboHelp TCS product manager, promised 
a Webinar but I don't believe it has happened yet.


You can download a brief procedure that Vikram 
sent me in March at 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ip6x2whnpfb315m/How%20to%20Edit%20RoboHelp%20mobile%20layouts.pdf. 
It might be helpful. I haven't tried it myself 
because I honestly thought that when I purchased 
RH10 I could do what I needed to do without 
having to learn an entirely new profession of Web 
design and HTML5 coding. Right now, I'll probably 
hire someone to tweak the sample files to make an 
entire set of mobile layouts with similar branding.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 4/25/2013, you wrote:

Robert, have you used the HTML5 layouts and found them less than satisfying?

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On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Robert Lauriston 
mailto:rob...@lauriston.comrob...@lauriston.com wrote:



Sounds like the HTML 5 layout is not compatible with WebHelp skins:

A screen layout has two key components, a set of screen layout pages
and a CSS. The screen layout pages define the content and the
structure. The CSS defines the layout and the skin.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS1b49059a33f77726-5d8e23a513606e3bbe2-7ffe.htmlhttp://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS1b49059a33f77726-5d8e23a513606e3bbe2-7ffe.html

Do you have a compelling reason to use the brand-new and probably not
ready for prime-time HTML 5 layout?

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Martinek, Carla cmarti...@zebra.com wrote:

Ok, I realize now IÂ’m probably off base with my questionÂ…  ugh. HTML5 and
the WebHelp Pro output are not the same.  Looked at it in a different way
and figured out where I was going wrong.

So what I need is to create(modify) an HTML 5 desktop screen layout that
uses one of the skins from the galleryÂ… is that possible to define easily,
or is it a major design from scratch issue?


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very small pages (WAS Importing .swf files and creating pdfs)

2013-04-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I've been meaning to ask about those very small pages for a year; 
thanks Shlomo for bringing the subject up. Every once in awhile, I 
have the very small pages problem when printing to PS via the PDF 
driver  and distilling (opposite to Shlomo's Save as PDF occurrence 
of the problem). It pops up out of nowhere; I'm happily printing 
chapters in a book, I change NOTHING, and then whammo--I get 
standard-sized pages with a small thumbnail-sized PDF in the middle 
of each page. The ONLY remedy is to shut down FM, Distiller, and 
Acrobat, open them all up again, and reprint to PS. I'm running FM11, 
Acrobat 10, on Win7. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? 
It sort of feels like a memory problem, but my system has, I think, 8 
GB of RAM, so memory shouldn't be an issue. The problem occurs 
independent of any particular file or book or distiller options. Let 
me repeat--everything is printing fine and then suddenly printing 
small with no change in ANY setting. I'm just curious--it is not a 
show stopper, but it can get very annoying and time consuming.


Carol


At 11:00 AM 4/30/2013, Shlomo Perets wrote:
Unrelated to interactive media, with FM8 or later Save as PDF 
works fine and I use it as the standard way to produce PDFs from FM. 
There are highly exceptional cases where Save as PDF fails (e.g. 
producing very small pages), and then switching to PS+distill is the 
workaround.


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how do people copy-protect their PDFs?

2013-05-05 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Does anyone use Adobe LiveCycle as a digital rights management (DRM) 
solution for selling/distributing their documents? If so, I'd 
appreciate your emailing me off-list so that I can ask a couple of questions.


Thanks in advance,

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RE: how do people copy-protect their PDFs?

2013-05-06 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Hi Alison,

So far, the only response has been from someone who uses LiveCycle 
Designer for forms but has no experience with it for ecommerce. Like 
you, I use Acrobat security for PDFs to prevent changing the docs or 
copying the content to clipboard, but it cannot prevent copying the 
entire file. For instance, Company Z has in the past purchased 200 
PDF versions of a book of regulatory standards. My client wants to 
prevent Company Z from simply making copies of the PDF instead of 
buying all 200 copies. Multiply that by thousands of ecommerce 
customers to understand the potential revenue that can be lost.


My client also wants to begin selling individual standards in 
addition to books of standards, much like IEEE does with its Xplore 
Digital Library Subscription Service 
(http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/subscriptions/ieee_standards_online_subscription_information.pdf). 
I have no clue where to begin to research how to accomplish the DRM 
for this, but I know it is not something in a Technical Writer's 
general tool kit. Several years ago I read about dongles, encryption, 
and password management systems, but from a user's perspective they 
are a burden. I want to find a resource/service that makes it easy to 
purchase and download a PDF and hard/impossible to copy the PDF. 
Minimally, I'd like to be able to tell my client how other companies 
do this; if it is impossible to protect the PDF, then at least he'll 
know he's in good company.


If anyone knows of other solutions to accomplish this, I'd appreciate 
your insight. I'm treading way outside my skillset here but would 
like to be able to give my client some basic direction. I wanted to 
ask fellow Framers first; then I'll move on to the LiveCycle forum or 
whatever direction you folks point me in.


Carol

At 03:21 PM 5/6/2013, Alison Craig wrote:
I think that's an excellent question. Could you post answers on-list 
or forward copies to me?


Right now I just use standard Adobe Acrobat security for my Frame 
generated PDFs (I need printable and digital manuals for the Medical 
Device industry). But we all know how easy that is to crack.


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Re: OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

2013-05-21 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Here's mine:

I want the availability of my software to be 
independent of my ability to pay for it. If I'm 
having a cash-flow problem, the last thing I need 
is to lose access to the tools that are required 
to generate my income. I want it to be MY 
decision as to when I update my software, not 
Adobe's. I want forever access to the tools for which I purchased a license.


Carol


Just signed the petition and indicated the 
following as the reason for signing:


It is really a matter of letting users choose, 
rather than aggressively force this or that option them.
Clearly, many Adobe users are still using older 
versions because many newer versions/upgrades 
were mediocre, half-baked, not too promising 
and/or too expensive. Instead of making an 
effort to produce inspiring/irresistible 
upgrades, they want to force all to constantly pay for the same softwareÂ…


[nothing originalÂ… I'm sure that these points 
and many other valid points were already made in 
the different threads in so many forums]



Shlomo Perets


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How to set up a Running H/F to call a paratag from a previous file

2013-05-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins

The Running H/F in my master page calls for a paratag  like this:
Running H/F 2 $paratext[H2 SubTitle]

I have child pages (each a separate file) that use that same master 
page, but because they are child pages, they don't have their own [H2 
Sub Title] paratag anywhere in the file. I want that Running H/F to 
locate the last instance of the paratag, which would be on the parent 
page, which is in a previous file. In other words, I want it to look 
backward instead of forward.


You can tell Frame to look backward for a paratag in the same file, 
but I can't find any mention in Frame11 Help about looking backward 
for a paratag in a previous file.


Is this even possible? If so, how do I revise the Running H/F 2 call 
to that paratag so that it works as described?


If not, then I know I will need to move all of the child pages into 
the same file as the parent page that contains the [H2 Sub Title] 
paratag. But there are hundreds of them and I'd rather not.


Carol

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RE: How to set up a Running H/F to call a paratag from a previous file

2013-05-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
The reason that the child pages are in individual files is because 
the client isn't sure yet how he wants to organize the content of the 
book. Hundreds of diagrams that could be grouped in various ways. To 
remain flexible, it made sense to create individual files that I 
could organize at the book level.


Xrefs and variables won't work in this situation because I really 
want this automated. If I organize a set of child pages one way at 
first and define a variable representing the parent, if the child 
moves to a different parent, then I'll have to change perhaps dozens 
of variables. I'll see what Rick Quatro can come up with in terms of scripting.


Thanks everyone for such speedy responses. I was twiddling thumbs for 
a whole 5 minutes before your ideas came back to me. You are great!


Carol

At 04:32 PM 5/23/2013, Combs, Richard wrote:
As Matt suggested, you can fake it with xrefs (but note that they'll 
be hyperlinks) or define a user variable for it. Alternatively, if 
each child page is in its own file, you could import its contents 
(text flow) into the main file as a text inset. Of course, that 
might initially be about as much work as moving the child pages 
into the main file.


I guess the best approach depends on why the content in these child 
pages was put into separate files to begin with (and whether that 
reason is still pertinent).


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composite books?

2013-06-09 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Hi John,

I include PDF and Word docs in my FM books for the convenience of 
being able to click the link and have the external program open them. 
For instance, if I'm converting a Word doc to FM, I'll add the Word 
doc to the book file so that I don't have to hunt around for it. 
However, FM cannot DO anything with them itself. It can't open them, 
it can't read them, nor can it include them in book generation. Would 
that it could!!


If you want to include these docs in your Framemaker book, you will 
need to import them into a FM document as objects.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 6/9/2013, you wrote:
Do I remember right that I can build a FM11 unstructured book that 
can include non-FM files?
I can't find anything in the help, but maybe I do not recall the 
name of the feature


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Crop marks on PDF

2013-06-19 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Hi everyone, I rarely print to anything other than standard 8.5 x 11 
so I'm struggling a bit here with a smaller page size.


I'm using Frame 11, without the most recent patch, and Acrobat XI. My 
Frame page size is set to 4 x 5.7 inches and my PDF options and Job 
Options are the same. The PDF output is the correct page size. All is 
good. However, I want my client to be able to print the PDF on 
standard 8.5 x 11 paper and see trim marks that define the page size 
of the PDF. I can do this in Frame by selecting FileSave As PDF 
and selecting Western registration marks. All is good.


HOWEVER, I don't want all of the registration marks; I want only trim 
marks. So I need to do this in Acrobat, not Frame. I cannot get 
Acrobat set up to do this correctly.  I've located the Add Printer 
Marks toolbar, but I can't get it to work. I suspect that the printed 
page size needs to be bigger than the page size defined by the trim 
marks. However, I can't define a different page size in the PDF file; 
that needs to be done in Frame. But I don't want Frame to change the 
PDF output's page size.


I'm going in circles here. Any advice? (This was so simple in earlier 
versions of both Frame and Acrobat.)


Carol

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RE: Crop marks on PDF

2013-06-20 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Thanks, Harro. I'm using Acrobat XI, which is TOTALLY different than 
Acrobat X. However, I did locate the Set Page Boxes tool in Acrobat 
XI. I had to define a new custom Tool Set to get access to the tools 
in the Print Production Toolset; I could NOT figure out how to 
display the already defined tool set. Thanks, Acrobat, for making a 
simple task so very much harder.


Setting the page size to 8.5 x 11 did nothing in my Acrobat 
application. That was my problem. However, Rick Quatro tested this on 
his system and it worked fine. (Thanks, Rick!) So I went back into 
the Framemaker 11 file to see if I could fix something there. My 
mistake was trying to control page size in the Job Options. That DOES 
work if all you want is a correctly sized PDF file. But you can't set 
crop marks on it or resize its page size. Here is what finally worked:


1) In Framemaker, select Print Setup. You MUST define a PDF paper 
size here that matches the paper size that you defined in Framemaker. 
(For me, this was 4x5.7.) You do this in two places in the Print 
Setup dialog box:


a) Select Name-Adobe PDF and click Properties. Click the dropdown 
arrow next to PDF Page Size. If the desired page size isn't in this 
list, you must add a new custom page size. Click Add and define the 
new page size. Return to the Print Setup window.


b) In the Print Setup window, click the dropdown arrow in the 
Paper|Size area. Select the paper size you defined in Step a.


2) Print to PDF. The result will be a correctly sized PDF file.

3) To add crop marks, in Acrobat, figure out how to get the Print 
Production Toolset visible. This will be easy in Acrobat X and very 
difficult in Acrobat XI. From the Print Production Toolset,


a) Select the Set Page Boxes tool. Define an 8.5 x 11 page size and 
apply to ALL pages.


b) Select the Add Printer Marks tool. Select which marks you want to 
apply, and apply to ALL pages.


I hope this helps someone else out. It is virtually impossible to 
find this written anywhere in Acrobat's  Help system for Acrobat XI 
or for Framemaker 11.


Carol

Carol

At 01:09 AM 6/20/2013, Harro de Jong wrote:

Carol J. Elkins wrote:


 HOWEVER, I don't want all of the registration marks; I want only trim
 marks. So I need to do this in Acrobat, not Frame. I cannot get
 Acrobat set up to do this correctly.  I've located the Add Printer
 Marks toolbar, but I can't get it to work. I suspect that the printed
 page size needs to be bigger than the page size defined by the trim
 marks. However, I can't define a different page size in the PDF file;
 that needs to be done in Frame. But I don't want Frame to change the
 PDF output's page size.

In Acrobat X, the tool you're looking for is in
Tools Print ProductionSet page boxes
Despite the name, this dialog also allows you to change the page size.
Make sure to apply the new page size to all pages and not just the 
current one.

Then you can add the registration marks.

Harro de Jong
Triview


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need to collaborate with a Word guru

2013-08-26 Thread Carol J. Elkins


Please contact me off list if you are an experienced Word user who is
familiar with building templates in both Framemaker and MSWord. I've been
asked to create a Word template that matches a Framemaker template that I
designed and I'm really struggling with Word's paragraph numbering versus
heading numbering styles. I need to set up styles to manage the following
numbering scheme:
1.0 THIS IS HEADING 1
1.1. This is List Number 2
1.2. This is Heading 2
1.2.1. This is List Number 3
1.2.2. This is Heading 3
1.2.2.1. This is List Number 4
1.2.2.2. This is Heading 4
1.2.2.2.1. This is List Number 5
1.2.2.2.2. This is Heading 5
1.2.2.2.2.1. This is List Number 6
1.2.2.2.2.2. This is Heading 6
2.0 THIS IS HEADING 1
2.1. This is List Number 2
2.2. This is Heading 2
2.2.1. This is List Number 3
2.2.2. This is Heading 3
2.2.2.1. This is List Number 4
2.2.2.2. This is Heading 4
2.2.2.2.1. This is List Number 5
2.2.2.2.2. This is Heading 5
2.2.2.2.2.1. This is List Number 6
2.2.2.2.2.2. This is Heading 6

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Re: Disappearing Palette Items

2013-08-29 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I can second Mike's suggestion to watch RJ's video. I watched it 
immediately after upgrading to Frame 9 and it made the paradigm shift 
from Frame 7 so much smoother. A lot of people really struggled with 
how to manage the pods and panels on the new UI, but RJ made it easy 
to understand. Until you understand the power of being able to 
customize your UI, you will not be able to take full advantage of the 
FM versions that have been released since FM9 plus the other Adobe 
products that use that same UI now.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 8/29/2013, Mike Wickham wrote:
There is a really good video on using the new (as of FM9) interface. 
It's really helpful in learning about docking palettes, setting up 
workspaces, etc.. I didn't like the new interface until I saw this 
video. Now, I wouldn't go back. Here's the link:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/tips-and-tricks-for-technical-communicators-to-maximize-productivity/getting-started-with-the-new-framemaker-9-user-interface/http://tv.adobe.com/watch/tips-and-tricks-for-technical-communicators-to-maximize-productivity/getting-started-with-the-new-framemaker-9-user-interface/


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Re: need to collaborate with a Word guru

2013-08-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins

At 11:00 AM 8/30/2013, you wrote:

Hey Carol,
Did you resolve this issue re: setting up Word styles to change text 
formats within the same level in heading styles?


Chris


I needed to find a Frame expert who was also a Word expert and able 
to create Word templates. I have not resolved that issue. I have 
figured out how to set up the Word numbering styles, but this is a 
Framemaker list and it is not appropriate to discuss that here. But 
that was only one of several Word-to-Frame issues I wanted to address 
with whatever Word expert I hired. Still looking.


Carol


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Re: need to collaborate with a Word guru

2013-08-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Matt, thanks for the advise, but I think you 
misunderstood. My client wants a Word template 
that matches my Frame template. I don't plan to 
parcel out the work; I'm doing it myself. As 
the subject line indicates, I want to collaborate 
with a Word guru, so my post was to find a Word 
guru on the Framer's list because I'll also be 
converting the Word-formatted documents to FM. 
Someone who regularly uses both programs will be 
able to see both sides of the equation. I just 
need to ask the Word person some questions, much 
as I've done with you on RoboHelp. I'm willing to 
pay for someone's time. I gave an example of the 
template's numbering scheme to dissuade people 
who have not mastered Word's numbering from 
responding. I've had a couple people respond off 
list, which was what I asked for, so I'm good 
now. This list is a godsend not only for FM 
users, but also for folks who have other skills!


Carol

At 02:29 PM 8/30/2013, Matt Sullivan wrote:
Hi Carol, perhaps you'd be well-advised to break 
up the two functions and parcel the work out separately.


I've created many effective Word templates that 
work properly when imported into FrameMakerÂ…it's 
really more of a function of the style names 
than the physical attributes of the Word DOT.


Once you have the proper clean slate as a 
DOCX, you can then format as necessary within Word itself.


Of course, the less formatting on the Word side, 
the better, but perhaps that's better than 
waiting for someone who likes both Fm and Word...


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RE: can corrupted FM doc be opened in some other way?

2013-09-06 Thread Carol J. Elkins
The Heroic Open results in a less dramatic Framemaker has to close 
shutdown, but a crash nevertheless.


Carol

At 11:07 AM 9/6/2013, Kathy Visger wrote:
Have you tried the heroic open? Esc+O+H. That used to work in Frame 
v7 and 8. I haven't tested it in FM11.


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Subject: can corrupted FM doc be opened in some other way?

I'm using FM11 on a Win7 box. I spent yesterday writing content for 
a new chapter in a book, thus there is no backup from a previous day.
Nor did I print a copy of the in-progress chapter before I quit for 
the evening. When I shut down last night, Framemaker was happy with 
the chapter. This morning, FM crashes immediately upon opening the 
file. The generated error log file is not helpful; it reports 
several internal errors with multi-digit meaningless numbers. The 
crash is duplicated when opening the file on my laptop running the 
same OS and FM version.


To test if it might be a corrupted graphic, I renamed the referenced 
graphics folder and told FM to ignore missing graphics when opening 
the file. The file still crashed FM.


At this point, I desperately need to get access to the content of 
the file so that I can copy the text that I've already written and 
start over. Is there some other way to open this file and get at the 
ASCII text?


Carol

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SOLVED: RE: can corrupted FM doc be opened in some other way?

2013-09-06 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Ha! Like a dog worrying a squirrel in a woodpile, I tried importing 
the corrupt file into a blank FM document. That worked! I am saved. 
Friday is beginning to look better. Thanks everyone.


Carol

At 11:07 AM 9/6/2013, Kathy Visger wrote:
Have you tried the heroic open? Esc+O+H. That used to work in Frame 
v7 and 8. I haven't tested it in FM11.


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I'm using FM11 on a Win7 box. I spent yesterday writing content for 
a new chapter in a book, thus there is no backup from a previous day.
Nor did I print a copy of the in-progress chapter before I quit for 
the evening. When I shut down last night, Framemaker was happy with 
the chapter. This morning, FM crashes immediately upon opening the 
file. The generated error log file is not helpful; it reports 
several internal errors with multi-digit meaningless numbers. The 
crash is duplicated when opening the file on my laptop running the 
same OS and FM version.


To test if it might be a corrupted graphic, I renamed the referenced 
graphics folder and told FM to ignore missing graphics when opening 
the file. The file still crashed FM.


At this point, I desperately need to get access to the content of 
the file so that I can copy the text that I've already written and 
start over. Is there some other way to open this file and get at the 
ASCII text?


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can corrupted FM doc be opened in some other way?

2013-09-06 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I'm using FM11 on a Win7 box. I spent yesterday writing content for a 
new chapter in a book, thus there is no backup from a previous day. 
Nor did I print a copy of the in-progress chapter before I quit for 
the evening. When I shut down last night, Framemaker was happy with 
the chapter. This morning, FM crashes immediately upon opening the 
file. The generated error log file is not helpful; it reports several 
internal errors with multi-digit meaningless numbers. The crash is 
duplicated when opening the file on my laptop running the same OS and 
FM version.


To test if it might be a corrupted graphic, I renamed the referenced 
graphics folder and told FM to ignore missing graphics when opening 
the file. The file still crashed FM.


At this point, I desperately need to get access to the content of the 
file so that I can copy the text that I've already written and start 
over. Is there some other way to open this file and get at the ASCII text?


Carol

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Re: One big file 200mb or small files grouped for a commercial pdf produ

2013-09-08 Thread Carol J. Elkins
What I do is to create a welcome or home page (which is a PDF file) 
that automatically launches when the CD is inserted. The welcome file 
contains links to the other books on the CD. That makes it easier and 
quicker for the user to navigate around the CD. Each book's PDF has a 
Return to Welcome Page bookmark at the bottom, allowing the user to 
return to the home page to access a different book.


Carol


With the advent of the rich media formats, my commercial pdfs are getting
bigger and bigger.
When compiling a final  product should I generate the separate child books
as separate pdfs and then group them before copying the group to the final
CD?.


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more on Adobe hack

2013-10-11 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Not willing to take any chances, not only did I change my Adobe 
password after receiving Adobe's email, I cancelled the credit card 
that Adobe had on file for me. (What a pain!) Today I received a call 
from Skyp 661-748-0240. I've learned that this is a blanket number 
that Skyp uses for anyone calling without a specific caller ID. The 
well-spoken man had a British or Indian/Pakistan accent and simply 
asked me if he was speaking to Carol. I said I was Carol. He left the 
line. Although I receive lots of phishing calls, I've never had one 
from a Skyp caller before today. I'm left wondering if it has any 
relation to the Adobe hack. It is a bit scary that the man knew my 
name. I will not answer any incoming call from Skyp 661-748-024 from 
this point forward.


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Who won the Content Strategy Tools Survey contest?

2013-10-19 Thread Carol J. Elkins
When we all completed the Content Strategy  Tools Survey, we were 
told we'd be entered into a contest. Adobe said the winners would be 
announced by email during the week of October 7. I'm always fearful 
that my winning notification will be marked as spam, so I was 
comforted when Adobe said that The Winner's details will be 
published on our blog https://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/ and also on 
the following public forums for a period of one month.


Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/AdobeTCS
Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/adobetcs
LinkedIn URL: 
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Adobe-Technical-Communications-Professionals-Group-2381149/about 



I checked their blog and LinkedIn URLs and can find no mention of who 
won. Does anyone know? Did I win? Did you?


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Re: framers Digest, Vol 97, Issue 22

2013-11-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Thanks for the link, Harro. And congratulations on being one of the winners!

Carol

At 11:00 AM 11/23/2013, you wrote:

the announcement just went up today:
https://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2013/11/congratulations-to-adobe-tech-comm-content-strategy-tool-survey-winners.html


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Re: [Stccicsig-l] Maybe OT -- Does anyone have recent experience with POD publishers?

2013-11-25 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Art, I've been publishing a cookbook via Amazon's Createspace.com POD 
and also via Kindle for a couple years and it has been a good 
experience. They take less of a cut per sale and give you great 
exposure. I actually set it up first for Kindle, and Createspace.com 
came along for the ride sort of automatically. If you want spiral 
binding, then I've been using CafePress.com for the same book.


I don't know anything about their requirements re landscape format.

Carol

At 01:05 PM 11/25/2013, Art Campbell wrote:

So I'm looking at Lulu, but remembering that 5 years or so ago, when I
evaluated them for documentation POD, the samples weren't good.

Any recent feedback from anyone?


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OT--PDF Read Out Loud problem

2013-12-10 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Last July, I posted this question to the Acrobat Community and got 
nowhere. So I'm asking here in hope that I can find someone who has 
had this problem and was able to fix it.


I'm using Acrobat XI Pro (fully updated to 11.0.05) on Windows7 
(fully patched). When I try to use the Read Out Loud feature on a 
PDF, Acrobat shuts down. I am able to turn on (activate) the Read Out 
Loud feature, but when I select Read to End of Page or Read This 
Document, Acrobat crashes. PDFs are version 1.6 (Acrobat 7.x). They 
were created in Acrobat Distiller 11 using the default Press job 
option settings. The documents are 100% accessible and are fully tagged.


I have been unable to use Read Out Loud since I upgraded from Acrobat 
9 Pro last January. I've read dozens of articles on how to prepare 
your PDFs for accessibility but this PDF is straight text--no 
tables, captions, etc. Just text. No complicated reading order. So 
for the life of me I can't figure out what to do to get the thing to 
read to me. I never had a problem before Acrobat 11 and I've never 
had to do anything to prepare the PDF.


Help!

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OT--PDF Read Out Loud problem

2013-12-11 Thread Carol J. Elkins
After I emailed this yesterday, I tested the PDF on my laptop (also 
running Acrobat 11 Pro on Windows 7), and the Read Out Loud function 
works fine. So the problem must be with the Acrobat installation on 
my desktop CPU. I've run the Repair feature to no avail. It isn't 
worth uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat since I can accomplish 
the task on my laptop.


However, one of the folks who kindly responded to me off-list made 
some comments about PDF accessibility that I'm interested in seeing 
discussed. She wrote: I am noticing a major flag in your post: were 
created in Acrobat Distiller 11 using the default Press job option 
settings. You have a few things against you... Distiller should not 
be used when creating accessible documents. Files should be converted 
to PDF. It may sound confusing, but the PDF created by PS Distiller 
is very different than converted one. Acrobat Read Out Loud is very 
rudimentary and you really should not use it for testing your document. 


Since I am of the School of Dov Isaacs and always print to postscript 
and then distill to get my PDFs, the idea that I shouldn't distill to 
get accessible PDFs is new to me. What are other people's thoughts?


Carol


Last July, I posted this question to the Acrobat Community and got 
nowhere. So I'm asking here in hope that I can find someone who has 
had this problem and was able to fix it.


I'm using Acrobat XI Pro (fully updated to 11.0.05) on Windows7 
(fully patched). When I try to use the Read Out Loud feature on a 
PDF, Acrobat shuts down. I am able to turn on (activate) the Read Out 
Loud feature, but when I select Read to End of Page or Read This 
Document, Acrobat crashes. PDFs are version 1.6 (Acrobat 7.x). They 
were created in Acrobat Distiller 11 using the default Press job 
option settings. The documents are 100% accessible and are fully tagged.


I have been unable to use Read Out Loud since I upgraded from Acrobat 
9 Pro last January. I've read dozens of articles on how to prepare 
your PDFs for accessibility but this PDF is straight text--no 
tables, captions, etc. Just text. No complicated reading order. So 
for the life of me I can't figure out what to do to get the thing to 
read to me. I never had a problem before Acrobat 11 and I've never 
had to do anything to prepare the PDF.


Help!

Carol

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FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?

2014-02-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Can anyone tell me if FM12 has fixed the problem in which character 
formats in source text are lost in cross-references to that source 
text? That one little fix would be a tipping point for me to upgrade 
to FM12. If not, has anyone found a better workaround than the one in 
the Frame archives that requires defining in maker.ini an entirely 
new version of the font for every font face that uses italics?


Carol

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RE: FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?

2014-02-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Best practice for setting up character formats is to set everything 
As Is except the feature that you want the character tag to control. 
That would include setting the Font Family to As Is. So for Emphasis, 
for example, the font family would be set to As Is and only the Angle 
set to Italic. This enables the character tag to be applied to any 
text, regardless of its paragraph usage. I can apply Emphasis to text 
defined as Times Roman, Arial, etc., and the font is retained and 
only the Angle changed.


For Adobe to ignore this in cross-references and require a unique 
Character tag for each different usage of a font family (e.g., Times 
Roman Emphasis, Arial Emphasis) is insane. Someone at Adobe, please 
look into this.


Carol


At 10:42 AM 2/4/2014, Shlomo Perets wrote:

Carol,

You wrote:

Can anyone tell me if FM12 has fixed the problem in which character 
formats in source text are lost in cross-references to that source 
text? That one little fix would be a tipping point for me to upgrade 
to FM12. If not, has anyone found a better workaround than the one 
in the Frame archives that requires defining in maker.ini an 
entirely new version of the font for every font face that uses italics?


Behavior in FM12 is as in previous versions; this is probably by 
design and not something listed to be fixed/changed.


As to a workaround: not necessarily feasible for your work, but if 
your character format uses a different font family, the italic/bold 
etc  will be carried over.



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RE: FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?

2014-02-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Thanks, Steve. My struggle right now is with cross-references to 
paragraphs that, in addition to regular text,  house hypertext links 
formatted with a Character tag that makes the text blue; and 
cross-references that house an italicized citation to a book. The 
character-formatted text in those cross-refs lose their character 
formatting. I use cross-references because I want to single-source 
the source text.  I can't avoid character formatting in these 
instances. And as you stated, breaking one cross-ref into three 
separate cross-refs to access the text before and after the 
character-formatted text is impractical.


Just as I can import text insets and retain their formatting, I would 
hope that eventually Adobe will give me the option to use cross-refs 
while retaining the source formatting. Call it a feature enhancement.


Carol

At 12:54 PM 2/4/2014, you wrote:

At 11:56 -0700 4/2/14, Carol J. Elkins wrote:

Best practice for setting up character formats is to set 
everything As Is except the feature that you want the character tag 
to control. That would include setting the Font Family to As Is. So 
for Emphasis, for example, the font family would be set to As Is 
and only the Angle set to Italic. This enables the character tag to 
be applied to any text, regardless of its paragraph usage. I can 
apply Emphasis to text defined as Times Roman, Arial, etc., and the 
font is retained and only the Angle changed.


This is absolutely true, but not the problem you originally reported ;-)

Referring to your original problem, in the ancient version of 
FrameMaker that I'm currently using (7), character tagging is indeed 
lost in xrefs. It may be intended behavior, or just an accidental 
side-effect of the power of FrameMaker's cross-reference formatting. 
As it's got xref builders that can themselves apply formatting, it 
can't honor any formatting in the source text. I.e, $paratext 
means just that - the text of the source paragraph, and only the 
text. The question would be, if FrameMaker *did* honor character 
formatting in the source of the xref, how would it combine that with 
formatting applied in the xref format definition?


I can think of some clunky workarounds, but they're just that: 
clunky. One approach is clearly to avoid character formatting of the 
the xref source if possible. If you can't, then maybe break the xref 
source up using inlines so that you can 'restore' the required 
formatting in the xref format by building the xref in bits with the 
formatting you want? I.e. the source text would be something like 
ParaWithTextasInlineACharFormattedBitasInlineParaWithTextasInlineA, 
and your xref format(s) would be something like $paratext (to part 
A)Emphasis (for char formatted bit$paratext (to part B). But 
then all xrefs would actually be three xrefs, tripling your workload 
and adding maintenance issues.


How you got about it all depends on the context. I would guess from 
your original post that you want to use $paratext and get the text 
*and* any character formatting applied to it. But FrameMaker doesn't 
work like that: you can't 'recover' character formatting from an 
xref source's text.


I don't know about maker.ini fixes, as FrameMaker 7 for Mac doesn't 
use maker.ini.


If all the above is nonsense, or completely off-base, I apologize: 
I'm trying to think in the midst of a gale that's trying to take the roof off.


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RE: FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?

2014-02-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Thanks, Steve. My struggle right now is with cross-references to 
paragraphs that, in addition to regular text,  house hypertext links 
formatted with a Character tag that makes the text blue; and 
cross-references that house an italicized citation to a book. The 
character-formatted text in those cross-refs lose their character 
formatting. I use cross-references because I want to single-source 
the source text.  I can't avoid character formatting in these 
instances. And as you stated, breaking one cross-ref into three 
separate cross-refs to access the text before and after the 
character-formatted text is impractical.


Just as I can import text insets and retain their formatting, I would 
hope that eventually Adobe will give me the option to use cross-refs 
while retaining the source formatting. Call it a feature enhancement.


Carol

At 12:54 PM 2/4/2014, you wrote:

This is absolutely true, but not the problem you originally reported ;-)

Referring to your original problem, in the ancient version of 
FrameMaker that I'm currently using (7), character tagging is indeed 
lost in xrefs. It may be intended behavior, or just an accidental 
side-effect of the power of FrameMaker's cross-reference formatting. 
As it's got xref builders that can themselves apply formatting, it 
can't honor any formatting in the source text. I.e, $paratext 
means just that - the text of the source paragraph, and only the 
text. The question would be, if FrameMaker *did* honor character 
formatting in the source of the xref, how would it combine that with 
formatting applied in the xref format definition?


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shortcut to change text boxes to make room for side heads

2014-02-26 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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.


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RE: shortcut to change text boxes to make room for side heads

2014-02-26 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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.


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need referrals for localization companies

2014-03-11 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I need to compile a list of recommended localization companies for a 
client who is now ready to translate their Framemaker books. I'd like 
your recommendations for small- to medium-sized localization 
companies. Please email me offlist.


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Annotating text in a cross-ref in a PDF

2014-03-27 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I'm generating PDFs out of Frame 11 and opening them in Acrobat 11 
Pro in a Windows environment. I've discovered that the text in 
cross-references created in Framemaker cannot be annotated in Acrobat 
using the Strikethrough Text tool or the Insert Text at Cursor tool, 
and probably other tools as well. Because the text is a 
cross-reference, the user sees a hand cursor rather than a cross-hair 
or I-beam and is thus unable to annotate the text.


I've tried various combinations of holding the Control, Shift, and 
Alt keys down, but the hand cursor persists. Does anyone know a trick 
to force Acrobat to ignore the fact that text is a cross-reference 
and allow users to annotate the text?


Carol

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RE: Annotating text in a cross-ref in a PDF

2014-03-27 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Craig,

Of course I revise any annotated cross-ref in the source FM document. 
But the cross-references must be reviewed and annotated, if 
necessary, in Acrobat. I give these PDFs to my clients for review and 
THEY must be able to annotate them.


Carol

At 01:43 PM 3/27/2014, you wrote:
If it is a cross reference, you'd want to edit that at the source 
text that is creating the cross reference text. I'd suggest 
adjusting your work flow. If your reviewers want to to edit the 
xref, they should click on the link and then make the edit at the 
source that is providing the text. If the text is edited there, the 
xref will take care of itself.


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Re: framers Digest, Vol 101, Issue 27

2014-03-28 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Thanks for trying, Winfried. Unfortunately, text in the middle of the 
cross-reference isn't annotatable. The I-beam cursor starts 
red-lining wherever it is placed and the user can't segregate just 
the text that they want to annotate from the surrounding text in the 
cross-reference.


I think that either identifying the revision in a balloon or 
encircling it with an added explanation is the only option. Since 
cross-references exist on a layer above the text, I was hoping there 
was a nifty way to drill down below the cross-ref layer to get at 
the text. Worse case, I could teach my reviewers how to delete all 
cross-refs in the document, but that is too complex and also defeats 
the purpose of checking to ensure the cross-refs go to where they should.


I'll add it to my list of feature requests.

Carol

At 11:00 AM 3/28/2014, you wrote:

Hi Carol,

I just did what you describe, and it works without any problems.
I created a file with some text, created a cross-reference
to this paragraph which lists only the paragraph text
($paratext) and created a PDF.
Then I move the cursor to the right of the cross-reference.
The cursor's appearance changes to an i-beam. Then I press
the left mouse button and move the i-beam across the cross-
reference. Then I press the Strikethrough symbol to apply this
comment type.
This also works when I press the Strikethough icon first and then
start selecting. This works whether I start selecting from the left
or the right side of the cross-reference.
Maybe you should move the cursor farther away to get the i-beam
cursor.

Best regards


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RE: Annotating text in a cross-ref in a PDF

2014-03-31 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Hi Winifried,

I'm not sure why this works for you and not for me. I am simply 
unable to select specific text within a paragraph that is a 
cross-reference. If you are willing, I'll take this off-line and 
email you personally to see if we can figure out what the difference 
might be that is causing this.


Carol


At 01:54 AM 3/31/2014, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote:

Hi Carol,

With no commenting tool selected, I can strike through text in the
middle of a cross-reference.

When I move the cursor over a cross-reference, then the cursor
changes to the hand cursor. Then I press the left mouse button
and move the i-beam across part of the cross-reference. The text
gets selected. This also works inside of cross-reference text. Then I
press the Strikethrough symbol to apply this comment type.

However, I agree that I cannot press the Strikethrough symbol
and then select part of the cross-reference text.

You know that you can change your selected text when you press
the SHIFT key and the Left/Right arrow keys!

Best regards

Winfried

 -Original Message-
 From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
 boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins
 Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 7:26 PM
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
 Subject: Re: framers Digest, Vol 101, Issue 27

 Thanks for trying, Winfried. Unfortunately, text in the middle of the
 cross-reference isn't annotatable. The I-beam cursor starts
 red-lining wherever it is placed and the user can't segregate just
 the text that they want to annotate from the surrounding text in the
 cross-reference.

 I think that either identifying the revision in a balloon or
 encircling it with an added explanation is the only option. Since
 cross-references exist on a layer above the text, I was hoping there
 was a nifty way to drill down below the cross-ref layer to get at
 the text. Worse case, I could teach my reviewers how to delete all
 cross-refs in the document, but that is too complex and also defeats
 the purpose of checking to ensure the cross-refs go to where they should.

 I'll add it to my list of feature requests.

 Carol

 At 11:00 AM 3/28/2014, you wrote:
 Hi Carol,
 
 I just did what you describe, and it works without any problems.
 I created a file with some text, created a cross-reference
 to this paragraph which lists only the paragraph text
 ($paratext) and created a PDF.
 Then I move the cursor to the right of the cross-reference.
 The cursor's appearance changes to an i-beam. Then I press
 the left mouse button and move the i-beam across the cross-
 reference. Then I press the Strikethrough symbol to apply this
 comment type.
 This also works when I press the Strikethough icon first and then
 start selecting. This works whether I start selecting from the left
 or the right side of the cross-reference.
 Maybe you should move the cursor farther away to get the i-beam
 cursor.
 
 Best regards



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RESOLVED: Annotating text in a cross-ref in a PDF

2014-04-01 Thread Carol J. Elkins
With help from Winifried and Rick, I finally figured out what the 
problem was and why I couldn't select text within a cross-reference 
so that I could annotate it. What was not pointed out in anyone's 
instructions is that you must have the I-beam/Arrow tool selected as 
the default tool. Generally, my default tool is the Hand tool and I 
rarely have occasion to use the I-beam/Arrow tool, so it didn't even 
occur to me to check.


So, to annotate text in a cross-ref, make sure the I-Beam/Arrow tool 
is selected. Do not select an annotation tool yet. Click and drag the 
I-beam cursor across the text you want to annotate. Then select the 
annotation tool to apply the annotation.


Thanks everyone for your help.

Carol

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Anything I should know before upgrading to TCS5?

2014-05-07 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I've attended most of the Adobe Webinars about TCS5 and FM12 and am 
getting close to being ready to upgrade from TCS 4 using FM11 and 
RH10 to TCS5 using FM12 and RH11.  I'm running Windows 7. To the best 
of this group's collective knowledge, are there any gotchas that I 
need to be aware of?  Can I copy the .ini file over to the new FM12 
as I have done for the past umpteen upgrades?


When I install, is it possible to keep FM 11 on the same drive and 
install a new FM 12? If so, is there anything I should do to keep 
Acrobat happy?  Can FM11 open files created in FM12?


If there are any secrets you could pass along that might reduce 
headaches and heartburn during the upgrade, I'd really appreciate it.


Carol

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Re: Anything I should know before upgrading to TCS5?

2014-05-08 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Last year I opted to subscribe to the Adobe Creative Cloud for 
$29.99/month promotional. That has now jumped to $49.99/month, but it 
provides access to every Adobe product I could want, including 
Photoshop and Illustrator. But those products were part of TCS4, so 
some people who already have them may simply choose not to upgrade 
them. I will not, however, relinquish my perpetual license to 
Framemaker until Adobe forces me to. I think my sole reason for 
wanting to upgrade this time is because I want to make sure that when 
Adobe decides to force the Framemaker subscription, I have the most 
current licensed version loaded because it will probably be the last 
upgrade I make. So I guess as long as Adobe dangles the threat of 
forcing a Framemaker subscription, I'll continue to shell out the 
bucks to maintain my perpetual license. That is a good marketing strategy, eh?


So far only one response to my question about upgrade gotchas. So am 
I to assume that everyone who has upgraded to TCS5 and FM12 had an 
uneventful upgrade experience?


Carol


At 11:00 AM 5/8/2014, you wrote:

 I am in the same boat, considering TCS5:
I do notice that neither Photoshop nor Illustrator are included. Presenter
is a bit clunky and nowhere close to illustrator.
I am trying to find an educational discount price with no effect.
I was very impressed with the stability of FM 11, but disappointed in its
advertised out of the box printing to e-books (apart from .pdf).
This would be my ONLY reason for the upgrade, so I would like to learn what
the Obie ones have to say, since I say they are chatting happily about Adobe
FM12.


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top-bound book

2014-06-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Framers,

I'm ready to print a wire-bound pocket-sized booklet that will be 
top-bound (coil binding along the top of the book) so as to fit 
nicely in one's pocket. In all my 18 years of doing this, this is the 
first time I've run across having to publish a top-bound book, so I 
have no experience to guide me. Thus I'm emailing you.


I've printed the Framemaker file to PDF and had the printer make a 
demo copy for me. When the booklet is held open to a two-page spread, 
the top page is upside down. In order to view it, one has to turn the 
booklet over or upside-down. I have some questions:


1. Is this the customary way to print a top-bound book? Or should 
both pages be visibly oriented the same direction? (That would put 
the page number of the top (even-numbered) pages on the bound edge.)


2. If not, what is the easiest way to get the even-numbered pages 
turned upside down? 1) By changing the Framemaker template; 2) By 
doing something in Acrobat; or 3) by telling the printer to do 
something on his end.


3. Is there a word that describes this kind of layout? I work with 
imposition in booklet printing a lot but it doesn't seem to apply to 
top-bound books.


I've asked my client to do a bit of usability testing to determine if 
it will make a difference to his users. Will they want to view two 
pages at once? Will they be inconvenienced by having to flip the book 
over every time they advance to the next page? This is a field test 
manual and they will definitely progress through the book one page at 
a time. While he's checking that out, I thought I'd check with you for input.


Carol

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Solved: top-bound book

2014-06-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Thanks, everyone. I agree that this should be done by the printer and 
I will contact him. It is easy enough for me to rotate the 
even-numbered pages in the PDF (thanks, Robert!) , which will nicely 
solve that problem if he doesn't want to do it himself. Rotating in 
the PDF will prevent me from having to stand on my head when editing 
the document in Framemaker if I were to rotate the master page.


Carol

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Re: Import by reference question: Word conversion to FM11

2014-06-05 Thread Carol J. Elkins
When I need to convert a Word book into Frame, the workflow I use is 
to print the Word book to PDF, open the PDF in Acrobat, and export 
all of the graphics as .eps files. Then I import those by reference 
into the FM book. (I rename them first to some meaningful filename.) 
However, sometimes for reasons I don't understand, the graphics 
exported out of the PDF are rendered in multiple horizontal strips 
and are not usable.


So my second workflow is to open the PDF page with the problem 
graphic on it in Illustrator, select the graphic, copy it to a blank 
file, and save it in Illustrator format. I import the Illustrator 
graphic by reference into Framemaker.


I'm using more and more Illustrator graphics as direct imports into 
my Framemaker documents. It saves time to not have to convert them to 
.eps or other graphic format. Plus, when I click them in Framemaker, 
they open directly in Illustrator for editing.


Carol

At 11:00 AM 6/5/2014, you wrote:
FM, of course, converts the doc with all the Word graphics embedded. 
I can get copies of all the graphics by doing a HTML save from Word 
and then collecting all the .png and .jgp files that I need from 
there. But what is the most efficient way (let's call it the modern 
way) to get these into the FM document as imported graphics to 
replace the embedded graphics. I've done the replace each one by 
hand route in the past, but it rawther bores me.


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Re: Import by reference question: Word conversion to FM11

2014-06-05 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Yes, but doesn't that render the extracted graphics as .jpgs? I 
strongly believe that .jpg is not the best graphic format to use for 
technical publications. Everyone's usage may vary and a lot depends 
on how the graphics were inserted in the Word doc in the first place, 
but .jpgs don't work for me; nor can I edit them. I prefer vector 
when possible and when not, I'll save out as .tif. But I don't have 
to make that decision if I let Acrobat extract as .eps. Even if the 
Word graphics are bitmaps, they don't lose any information when 
converted to .eps.


Carol

At 12:59 PM 6/5/2014, Robert Lauriston wrote:

You don't need to convert Word to PDF to extract images. Save the Word
doc as .docx if it's not already, make a copy, change the extension
from .docx to .zip, extract the files, and the images are all in
\word\media.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Carol J. Elkins
celk...@awrittenword.com wrote:
 When I need to convert a Word book into Frame, the workflow I use is to
 print the Word book to PDF, open the PDF in Acrobat, and export all of the
 graphics as .eps files.


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CORRECTION: Section Number resets after closing file

2014-07-03 Thread Carol J. Elkins
You know, I tested the behavior of the Section number problem on this 
book three times before I sent the email for help. Then I tested the 
other five books (and 80 documents) in this series of books and the 
Section number does not reset when the files are closed and reopened. 
Then I tested the problem book and now the Section number behavior fine.


So I'd like to modify my question: Has anyone experienced any 
instability in the Document Numbering properties functionality?


I have had documents' Chapter number and Volume number mysteriously 
reset to 1 since upgrading to Frame12. I thought it was probably me 
having senior moments or perhaps I acidentally imported a book's 
numbering properties across all files in a book. But ever since this 
inconsistent behavior started, I've been much more careful to NOT 
import ANY Document properties in any books. I can't think of any 
other way that I could have corrupted the Chapter or Section numbers.


But the problem is intermittent and unpredicably caused. So other 
people's experiences might help to build a case.


Carol




I'm working in Frame 12 fully patched on a Win7 system. For each 
document in a book, I've set a specific Section number using the 
file's Numbering Properties 
(Format--Document--Numbering--Section). Everything works fine 
while all files in the book are open. Cross-references to that 
section number work correctly. However, when I close the files in the 
book and reopen them, the Section number for each file has reset to 1.


For each of these files, I've also defined a Chapter number using the 
same process. The Chapter number does NOT reset when the files are 
closed are reopened.


Can anyone verify this behavior in their Frame12 app? If so, then 
I'll file a bug report.


BTW, is there a way to check to see if someone has already filed a bug report?

Carol

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UPDATE to CORRECTION: Section Number resets after closing file

2014-07-03 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Okay, I have finally made the problem reproducible. (Sorry for 
innundating the list with these emails, but I'm pretty panicky right 
now because I've based an entire library of books and documents to 
rely on using the Section number in a specific type of 
cross-reference that I've defined.)


Opening/closing the files in a book have nothing to do with the 
Section number resetting to 1. What resets the Section number to 1 is 
updating the book. I've tested this now in all six books in this 
series and updating the book consistently resets the Section number 
to 1. It does NOT reset the Chapter or Volume numbering.


So, back to my original question. Can anyone else reproduce this 
behavior? If so, I'll file a bug report. Or perhaps I'm totally 
misunderstanding the role of the Section number; perhaps it is 
dependent on something else?



Carol

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SOLVED Re: UPDATE to CORRECTION: Section Number resets after closing file

2014-07-04 Thread Carol J. Elkins

Hi Rebecca,

Thanks for responding. It turns out that the Section numbering 
property will work only for files that are nested under a book 
folder. Unfortunately, Framemaker doesn't tell you that when you are 
setting up the Section number. It happily does your bidding and then 
when you regenerate the book, it resets all Section numbers to the 
default 1. In hindsight, the resetting is appropriate behavior; but 
the letting me do something wrong without warning me is bad behavior. 
It greys out the Section number at the book level if the file isn't 
inside a folder to prevent me setting the Section number at the book 
level; but it does not grey it out at the file level, leading the 
unsuspecting tech writer to believe that it is a legal function.


So I put each file in its own book folder and things seem to work 
well now. I can cross-reference to the Section number, and it 
sticks when I regenerate the book. Panic over. Thanks much to Rick 
Quatro for helping me troubleshoot the problem.


Carol

At 07:49 PM 7/3/2014, rebecca officer wrote:

Hi Carol

Have you checked the numbering settings in the books themselves? Ie, 
by right-clicking on files in the book and choosing numbering.


I'm wondering if this might be what got changed/corrupted, rather 
than the files. If the book settings are different from the file 
settings, Frame uses the book settings.


Cheers
Rebecca


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