Re: secured PDFs

2015-03-05 Thread Carol J. Elkins
At 11:00 AM 3/4/2015, you wrote: We are using the certificate security for our manuals instead, which will make sure that any unauthorized change could be detected. Heiko, from the little I know about PDF certificate security, you must be able to identify every user of the PDF. My clients sel

Re: Scripting issues

2015-03-06 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Steve, have a look at AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/). I have no personal experience with it but a newsletter that I subscribe to (http://webserver.computoredge.com/) has a weekly feature on it. If you search the newsletter's archives for "autohotkey" you'll find dozens of articles that

Miles33 and Framemaker

2015-03-13 Thread Carol J. Elkins
, it is an XML-based publishing system. I need to locate resources who are familiar with Miles33 and who might be interested in bidding a conversion project from Miles33 to Framemaker. Please respond off-list. ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word

How to Choose the Right Image File Format for Print

2015-03-19 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Here is a really good article (I think) about the various graphic file formats and when to use and not use them. http://www.creativepro.com/article/how-to-choose-the-right-image-file-format-for-print I've read dozens of similar articles and this one stands out for its clarity. This past year I'v

Re: How to Choose the Right Image File Format for Print

2015-03-21 Thread Carol J. Elkins
At 11:00 AM 3/21/2015, you wrote: I assume you are referring to commercial printing, where either CMYK process colors or similar spot colors are used. Well, no, actually. I do very little color work and am woefully ignorant on all things color. So far, the color photos and occasional color

Now I need to unsubscribe from Adobe marketing phone calls?

2015-06-05 Thread Carol J. Elkins
g for sales and disrupting my workflow in the process. This is not the first time that I have received multiple calls from the same representative asking the same questions, and they simply must cease. Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Mak

Creative Cloud Subscribers beware

2015-06-17 Thread Carol J. Elkins
oblem that Adobe created, not to mention nearly having a heart-attack. So CC subscribers, be careful. Your Acrobat license that came as part of TCS is vulnerable to attack by Adobe's Acrobat DC. As for Adobe, shame on you. Carol ****** Carol J.

Re: [Framers] Acrobat DC and ... (don't laugh)

2016-01-13 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Lea, when you printed to file, did you remember to put a check in the "Generate Acrobat Data" box? Also, are you invoking the print command from the file or from the book? If the print settings are different in the file versus the book, then the PDF output can be different. Carol At 10:52 AM

Re: [Framers] Compiling books on to a CD/DVD

2016-01-13 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Tom, the way I do this is to make a splash screen containing a graphic and create a PDF out of it. Then on that splash screen PDF (in Acrobat), I create "buttons" for each publication on the disc and link the button to the appropriate PDF. When you burn the CD, you would have your splash scree

ADMIN Announcing Framers on Mailman!

2005-11-21 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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Pagemaker to FrameMaker conversion

2006-06-26 Thread Carol J. Elkins
ion vendor who could manage this conversion? Thanks, as always, for your help. Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

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

table sort order

2006-03-07 Thread Carol J. Elkins
le? Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

table sort order

2006-03-07 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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 >has: 0 ** Carol J. Elkins---A Writt

table sort order

2006-03-07 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Sorry, Ann, to keep my question simple, I didn't mention that each number is preceded by an alpha character. The numbers really look like this: M-509 M-509 M-5104 M-5105 M-5115 M-512 M-5120 That sends a different message to Frame, signalling an alpha sort instead of a numeric sort. Sorry for t

SOLVED: table sort order

2006-03-09 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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 P.S. Welcome back, Dov. ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC M

Keyboard shortcuts to pod elements

2010-06-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
ss in functionality by "upgrading" to a newer product. Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celk...@awrittenword.com http://www.a

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

2010-10-14 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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 ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mail

On-Demand Watermarks in PDF

2011-01-21 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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. Carol ** Carol J. Elkin

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, et

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

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

Revision marks (bars)

2011-02-24 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Dan, thanks for that incredibly helpful tip! I had no idea that this functionality existed to insert change bars. Your Alt-o-y-c method has the added advantage of not changing the character formatting of the selected text. So, for example, if I put change bars on italicized text, those italics

Web site with Adobe customer help phone numbers

2011-03-18 Thread Carol J. Elkins
-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. Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information

OT: Does anyone have an old InDesign template folder?

2011-07-07 Thread Carol J. Elkins
e 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! Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understand

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

2011-07-22 Thread Carol J. Elkins
If anyone would be willing to share their Template folder from an older version of InDesign, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! Carol ********** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celk...@a

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

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 d

installing PDF printer driver

2011-10-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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? Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mail

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 y

Acrobat 9 Pro can't read out loud

2011-12-08 Thread Carol J. Elkins
t), 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?: Carol **

OT: New Frame 10 license for sale

2012-02-28 Thread Carol J. Elkins
ested. ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celk...@awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com *** ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...

OT: SOLD--New Frame 10 license for sale

2012-02-28 Thread Carol J. Elkins
, or academic license. Retail price is $999. I'm offering it for $499. Contact me off-list if you are interested. ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celk...@awrittenword.com

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 bef

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. An

Re: FrameMaker Equation Editor

2006-05-25 Thread Carol J. Elkins
-0400, you wrote: Is there anyway I can force FrameMaker to use MT Symbol Italic and have all the existing equations updated globally to use this new font? ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:[

Pagemaker to FrameMaker conversion

2006-06-26 Thread Carol J. Elkins
ranslation vendor who could manage this conversion? Thanks, as always, for your help. Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.awritt

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

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 eve

How to create a custom alert

2009-06-08 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I'm looking for a way to create an alert message (Danger, Caution, etc.) that avoids having to make the whole thing a graphic. I have a manual with a zillion of these. They are rectangular with rounded corners; the width is constant and the height will vary according to message content. There i

Can Word identify graphic file names?

2009-06-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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. Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948

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

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-r

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

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 Hel

Paragraph Designer freezes

2010-04-02 Thread Carol J. Elkins
eeks 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? Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Mak

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

Incrementing, Balloon-type Numbered List pgf

2010-04-14 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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. ********** Carol J. Elkins---A Writ

Keyboard shortcuts to pod elements

2010-06-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
ss in functionality by "upgrading" to a newer product. Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

Rely on system fonts only

2010-05-12 Thread Carol J. Elkins
document fonts. Click OK twice. 12. Repeat when Adobe next does an automatic update. ********** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

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

2010-10-14 Thread Carol J. Elkins
'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 ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

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

Acrobat 9 Pro can't read out loud

2011-12-08 Thread Carol J. Elkins
t), 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?: Carol **

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 re

Revision marks (bars)

2011-02-24 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Dan, thanks for that incredibly helpful tip! I had no idea that this functionality existed to insert change bars. Your Alt-o-y-c method has the added advantage of not changing the character formatting of the selected text. So, for example, if I put change bars on italicized text, those italics

On-Demand Watermarks in PDF

2011-01-21 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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. Carol ** Carol J. Elkin

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

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

OT: Does anyone have an old InDesign template folder?

2011-07-07 Thread Carol J. Elkins
e 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! Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understand

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

2011-07-22 Thread Carol J. Elkins
anyone would be willing to share their Template folder from an older version of InDesign, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! Carol ********** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at a

Web site with Adobe customer help phone numbers

2011-03-18 Thread Carol J. Elkins
-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. Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information

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 d

installing PDF printer driver

2011-10-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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? Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

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 yo

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

OT: Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription

2012-12-25 Thread Carol J. Elkins
f 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. ********** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773

OT: New Frame 10 license for sale

2012-02-28 Thread Carol J. Elkins
ested. ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

OT: SOLD--New Frame 10 license for sale

2012-02-28 Thread Carol J. Elkins
, or academic license. Retail price is $999. I'm offering it for $499. Contact me off-list if you are interested. ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com

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

how to italicize every instance of certain words

2012-06-25 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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? Carol **********

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, ad

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 bef

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. Doe

Can Frame's default color definitions be changed?

2012-10-16 Thread Carol J. Elkins
(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 ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 ma

Can Frame's default color definitions be changed?

2012-10-16 Thread Carol J. Elkins
ur 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? ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Pho

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

2012-10-17 Thread Carol J. Elkins
et. >Then click the Change All button. All instances of Green will >magically change to your new colour. ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

Is there a video demonstrating Word vs Framemaker?

2012-09-17 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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Is there a video demonstrating Word vs Framemaker?

2012-09-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
I think there is so much more to say about a Frame vs Word comparison in a video than stability, single-sourcing, and conditional text. I am not an advanced Word user, so it is likely that I simply do not know how to force Word to do some of the things that Framemaker does so simply, but off th

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

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

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

2013-04-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
ated 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 &g

need to collaborate with a Word guru

2013-08-26 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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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 y

need to collaborate with a Word guru

2013-08-30 Thread Carol J. Elkins
looking. Carol ****** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

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

OT--PDF Read Out Loud problem

2013-12-10 Thread Carol J. Elkins
tions, 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 **********

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 r

best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

2013-02-10 Thread Carol J. Elkins
ck up against each other in real life. (That actually was the real point of my email.) Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

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

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

Sorting paragraphs

2013-01-08 Thread Carol J. Elkins
st of References) in about 2.5 years now. ********** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

Can't import Object styles

2013-01-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
eviously 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. Carol *********

RESOLVED: Can't import Object styles

2013-01-23 Thread Carol J. Elkins
le 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, ********** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-94

composite books?

2013-06-09 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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 ********** Carol J. Elki

Crop marks on PDF

2013-06-19 Thread Carol J. Elkins
advice? (This was so simple in earlier versions of both Frame and Acrobat.) Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***

Crop marks on PDF

2013-06-20 Thread Carol J. Elkins
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

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 ge

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.

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, Carol ** Carol J. E

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 fil

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