Art Campbell wrote:
Then, specific to .PNGs, open it an set the bit depth to 8
bits; if it's 24 you may have other problems.
Actually, that's a bad idea. There is remarkably little size difference
between 24-bit and 8-bit PNGs. And the latter have an annoying
disadvantage when imported into
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I inherited some documentation, and I get an error message
The Frutiger-Black Font is not available. Does anyone
know where I can download that font for free or does anyone
know anything about that font. I am using FM 7.2 unstructured.
The original Frutiger
Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
The tables are all anchored to paragraphs that are in the
main text area, not in the side head area.
Are you sure? Really? Double-check this in Paragraph Designer's
Pagination tab. Are the anchor pgfs all set to In Column? It's not
enough that they _be_ in the
Michael Müller-Hillebrand
A company with a lot of modules (software or hardware)
nowadays usually has a website where all the latest PDF files
are available for download.
But, wouldn't it be desirable to have all that information in HTML
format: better navigation options, more efficient
Michael Zaichenko wrote:
Thanks Chris,
this seems to be a one way road: number into letter. How
about the other way around. I need to know what ascii or hex
number a certain letter is. I have a far too sophisticated
script that loops through characters and assigns them codes
and
James Monaco wrote:
We have books with different text frames for left and right
master pages (in order to leave more space in the gutter than
on the outside). When you insert a graphics frame for an
illustration it references the page, not the text frame. The
result is that if the
Susan Modlin wrote:
This is a weird one. Frame is under the impression that I
have 16 Kozuko Gothic and Mincho fonts installed. They show
up in the para designer and fonts lists. Windows, on the
other hand, has never heard of them -- they're not in my
fonts folder or anywhere else on
Stephen O'Brien wrote:
I have FrameScript and want to share a script with a colleague. Does
that person also have to have FrameScript (i.e., buy a 2nd
license) on
his computer?
Only if he wants to _run_ the script. :-)
Richard
--
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom,
Elisabeth SABOT wrote:
Thanks a mil for the tips. It works great!
However, I went through the online help (Getting Started,
User Guide and Template Reference are the only parts
provided) and I browsed the program files on my system but
couldn't find any mention of a Style Designer nor
Elisabeth SABOT wrote:
It seems that you all use WWP Pro? Or the native Frame XML
output maybe? (I'm not very familiar with XML and stuff so I
didn't go much further than creating a structured document in
FrameMaker based on one of the templates provided.)
I've used WWP Pro and Mif2Go
Pinkham, Jim wrote:
If one has a figure at
c:\docs\manuals\widgets\bigredwidget.eps, is there a ready
way to determine what FM manuals are importing
bigredwidget.eps by reference?
Art's on the right track, but I strongly recommend you generate an
_Index_ of References, not a List. The
Steve Rickaby wrote:
A benevolent God would give us FrameMaker 9 with InD's
typographical engine.
Are you listening, Adobe?
Hmm, that's an interesting religion you're positing. ;-)
And, indulge my curmudgeonliness for a moment: Does the tech writing
profession really need more excuses
rebecca officer wrote:
If you replace the space before the .xml (etc) with a
non-breaking space, then the spellchecker ignores it. The
non-breaking spaces drop the quality of your layout a little,
but for a developer guide I'd guess that wouldn't really be a problem.
I think any of the
Rene Stephenson wrote:
OK, so an advisory notice of sorts (ReadMe file, popup,
etc.) looks like our only option...
I have Acro 7, and in the Print dialog, Page Scaling defaults to Fit to
Printer Margins. My default HP printer has unprintable margins of, IIRC,
about .22 inches on the
Van Boening, Tammy wrote:
just taking up space. How do I go about generating a list of
what graphics are actually used where in the book. (I
obviously want to compare this list to the actual directory
contents and nuke those from the directory that don't appear
on the list.)
To
David Spreadbury wrote:
Is this a new problem or has someone experienced this and I
missed the fix/workaround.
I have a 50 page table of Acronyms and Glossary Terms with
cross-references between cells. The cross-references work
fine until I sort the table, then they are all
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
I am using the Distiller 7 that came with FM. I also have
installed Acrbat 6 pro. The odd thing though is that it seems
that FM can see the old joboptions, but Distiller 7 can only
see the ones that reside in its own default folder.
In case Dov Isaacs isn't
Randall C. Reed wrote:
We have a curious problem: We are bringing in a 700-page
addition to our document from another source, complete with
graphics. The master page and variable conversions went
smoothly. But, when we attempted to import and re-link the
hundreds of graphics, we've run
Paul Grigg wrote:
Just something we've noticed: if, in FM, you Edit paste
special paste link to a table in an excel 2003, the table
appears in FrameMaker, but when the file is printed, either
to a physical printer or to distiller, the table turns into a
black stub. Anyone else noticed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible to put building blocks inside a user variable?
Ideally I'd like to create a variable named CurrentYear that
contains only the $year building block. For reasons
unknown, I'd like to do this without modifying or using the
existing current date,
David Bills wrote:
Also, the compare document feature mentioned in a previous
e-mail doesn't do a good job identifying changes in tables or
graphics. It also introduces conditional text to the
document, which adds a layer of complexity to the document.
It's a useful tool, but probably
Jon Harvey wrote:
I'm getting a missing font error in various docs. Is there a
way to determine in a large FM doc what fonts are missing and
where FM is looking for them? I'm using FM 7.2 on Windows.
I'd like to find the culprit text and solve the problem.
The missing font message tells
Judie Vegh wrote:
As a follow up to this, would it be possible if I wanted text
to expand across both columns at the bottom of the page? Say,
instead of adding in a graphic to explain my steps, I'd like
to add in a text box with some information relevant to the
text/steps that are in
David Shaked (Wernick) wrote:
Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM
techniques? I am using FM 7.2. Most of these questions
(except #6) are about techniques that are easy to use in
Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent.
1. Navigation techniques. Are there
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So--while working in FrameMaker 7.0p579 (XP) I thought that
I was entering words into the Find field of the Find/Change
dialog, while trying to read something elsewhere. But my
fingers were hitting the wrong keys and when I looked up
there was a prompt box
Jon Harvey wrote:
I have a few dozen FM documents that each have at least 100
color definitions that I would love to delete. Is there a way
to delete them all at once for a given document? Better yet,
delete them at the book level? I've tried saving the doc as a
MIF file and opening it
Garnier Garnier wrote:
I could right align the numbered list in FM and they seem
perfect in the PDFs.
The problem is that the generated html output does not give
the required result. The single digit in the WebWorks output
still appears to be left aligned due to which the
Diane Gaskill wrote:
As some of you might remember, a few weeks ago, I posted some
messages to the list regarding my company's research into
changing from Word to either ArborText or Structured FM. I
received several excellent responses to my questions and
created a 4-page spreadsheet
O'Laoghaire Micheal wrote:
Art,
Thanks for replying.
There is merit in what you say but I have converted quite a
number of documents with embedded graphics without
encountering this problem.
There is sonething unique about this document but I have not
been able to figure it out.
If
Dennis Davideit wrote:
A couple week ago, my Marker dialog box suddenly
disappeared. That is, when I click Special Marker, the
Marker dialog box does not appear.
The other dialogs in the Special menu display correctly
(Anchored Frame, Cross Reference, etc).
You probably inadvertently
karyn hunt wrote:
We have a TOC that has always worked fine in the past. We
just added a new paragraph tag to the template that won't
pick up the leader lines in the way other, similar paragraph
tags do. We're searching for a solution.
snip
Now, when we run the TOC, all the other
Leah Smaller wrote:
To acheive something more compact, I applied my IndexRight
and IndexLeft master pages (no side heads, 2 columns, 1 text
flow). Now this looks really great, gives me exactly what I
want, and fits exactly onto 2 pages.
The problem is these that 2 pages have side
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to
remove trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents
that are either imported into FrameMaker or opened by
FrameMaker (by conversion). I have a plethora of these and
the closest I have got is
Molly Keegan wrote:
I'm trying to set up my two lists so that the figure number
appears in front of the figure title (same with tables). I
can't find a user variable for figure number or table number.
Am I missing something? Can I create one myself?
Assuming you're using autonumbered
John Sgammato
In FM8, is there a convenient way to rename a paragraph
format throughout a book?
For example, I want to rename Heading 1 to Heading1. I can do
it in one chapter, but importing the file across the book
simply adds the new format, while leaving the other in place.
I
Steve Rickaby wrote:
When I try the first method, it fails to work despite
everything appearing to be correct. I think this is because
the sidehead property is a property of the flow [which I seem
to remember reading here recently], so that even though the
full-span master pages have
Rick Quatro wrote:
I have a MIF question. I have a book file where the client
wants a single MIF file for the entire book. My first thought
was to combine the book components into a single FM file and
save the result as MIF. The problem is different master pages
applied to different
Jon Harvey wrote:
I have several headings that I'm using to generate a TOC:
Heading1, Heading2, Heading3, Chapter.number,
Appendix.number. When I generate the book, all the headings
appear in the TOC file's reference page. However, content
that uses the Chapter.number and
Martin Simon wrote:
Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in
converting a FM book to an MS Word doc. The FAQ didn't say
much. I converted my book to HTML then pasted into a blank
Word doc. There is a lot of clean-up necessary. Do you have
any other ideas? I do not
Martin Simon wrote:
I did not see all of those options since I was trying to
convert the book file. My choices were limited to fm,
mif,pdf,htm, and xml.
Ah, so that's why you went the HTML route. :-) Remember, in FM, all the
content is in the .fm files. The .book file just contains
Lin Surasky wrote:
And SnagIt captures the image just fine, as I imagined it
would, but does anyone know how to tell it to maintain the
original text size and use more than one page if necessary???
The print is so small it's just lines.
You're sending the screen capture directly to the
Richard Doll wrote:
Beginning yesterday in the afternoon when an object was
selected for movement, its trajectory to the intended
position was stuttered/bounced in about 6pt increments.
The objects involves are: Frame created rules and shapes,
Table cell boundaries, and Graphic (.tif
Steve Rickaby wrote:
I am forced to mix 1-column and 2-column layouts. I cannot
use tables, as the existing 1-c material that must go into
2-c already contains tables.
As we know from previous discussions here, the column layout
is a flow property rather than a page property, so I
Lin Surasky wrote:
You know, I realized this after I sent the message off. But I
substituted Xs for the asterisks and it doesn't change
things. The Xs/asterisks are literally touching the top rule
of the table cell.
Touching the top rule? Something's wrong there! You said earlier that
Fred Ridder wrote:
FrameMaker only knows to update generated files that have the
same base filename as the book plus the relevant generated
file suffix (e.g.
...TOC, ...LOF, ...IX). If the names of the existing
generated files don't follow the pattern, FrameMaker will
generate
Bill Swallow wrote:
Doesn't seem like much of an integration, and certainly isn't
single-sourcing given you can't round-trip the RH content back to FM.
It's a repurposing solution.
If round-tripping were a prerequisite for single-sourcing, then using
Acrobat Distiller and Webworks
Bill Swallow wrote:
FM+RH is still repurposing content from FM
into RH then out to whatever output you choose, and unless
I'm missing something, if you make changes in RH to your
content, you can't repurpose the content back to FM.
That's true *if* you make changes in RH to your content
Richard Levine wrote:
I cannot really say that round-tripping is what I am looking
for. What I would really like to see a fully integrated
authoring environment that integrates multi-channel output
with a powerful editor that overcomes FrameMaker's many
limitations, thus obviating the
Neeraj Jain wrote:
Hi Steve,
I want to learn structured FM. Can you please provide a
specific link within http://www.scriptorium.com from where I
can study the same? I browsed scriptorium but found paid
resources only. Please help me in learning.
Steve said, I used the Scriptorium
Randall C. Reed wrote:
I cannot get a work package number autonumber to work
properly in the files at the beginning of the book.
P:000n+ just returns 0001.
I've gone into the document menu on both the book and
individual files and set the Page numbering feature to
Continue.
But the
Brad Simmons wrote:
Has Adobe finally gotten around to fixing that blasted Times Font
problem? You know, the one where FrameMaker looks in vain for
the Times font, and it will tell you that you don't have it
- even when it's on your PC?
There's never been a Times Font bug that I'm aware
Fred Ridder wrote:
But if you set the properties to Continue, it *is* possible
to reset a specific paragraph numbering series by formatting
a paragraph with an autonumber formula that explicitly sets
the appropriate counter elements in the series definition to
the desired values.
Of
Natalie Bircher wrote:
Does anyone know why I would lose page and column breaks?
Kinda depends on how they were created (it never hurts to describe the
situation in a bit more detail, including software version, etc.).
IIRC, there's a Page Break menu item (I don't have it because I've
Natalie Bircher wrote:
Stuart!!
Where do you get off busting my chops?
You apparently need more help than the others that have
answered my question with the information I gave. I didn't
need to give them my OS or FM version to answer this question.
Your tone is arrogant and
Whites wrote:
How does one embed a non-breaking blank space in the site dictionary?
I'd like to add Red Hat with space and also prevent it
breaking at the end of the line. My brief poking around in
the manual did not make my any wiser. Any solution appreciated.
I don't know of a
Lise Bible wrote:
I was able to find information in FrameMaker Help about To
insert a cross-reference to a paragraph in a text inset but
it seems like that's talking about inserting a
cross-reference *elsewhere in the file* to a paragraph
contained *within the text inset*, and what I
Scott White wrote:
I remember doing this once before but can find the reference
in the book; how can I change a unique string of text from
regular type to bold within a document.
I would like to find every reference of lets say ABC Company, Inc.
and change it to bold with a replace
Scott White wrote:
I would like to find every reference of lets say ABC Company, Inc.
and change it to bold with a replace function of some sort.
I should have also mentioned that a better long-term solution might be
to create a CompanyName variable defined as boldABC Company, Inc. That
Van Boening, Tammy wrote:
I have been trying in vain to unsubscribe from the framers
list and tech-whirl list for several days now as I am leaving
this gig and will soon have a new email address; however, no
luck. No matter what I do, whenever I log in, I either get
timed out or when I
Ron Miller wrote:
In my view, the only reason Windows has dominated personal
computing is because Microsoft bullied hardware company into
selling its products.
I don't think this popular myth stands up to scrutiny. Microsoft's
bullying wasn't primarily to get people to *use* Windows, it
Technical Writer wrote:
Many, especially in business, would argue the opposite; the
first mover advantage is huge. Case in point, the business
strategy of Sony.
Sony is a good company with solid products, but their track record on
innovations sucks. They brought us, among others, Beta
Technical Writer wrote:
but otherwise not particularly useful. To believe that a
secondary industry is necessary to assure an acceptable level
of quality in production is impoverished. Quality goods can
be produced by motivated, competent workers without a QA overseer.
And later:
Yes.
Tammy Van Boening wrote:
... According to all the hulla-bulloo about this 8.0
release, I can enable commenting rights in a PDF so that my
Adobe Reader users can participate in shared reviews of the
PDF. So, I followed the instructions to the T provided in
the Adobe Acrobat Online Help
Brad Simmons had two conditional text questions:
First Question: Is there any way I can specify that the
colors are viewed on the screen only, and not in the final
outputted document?
In the Show/Hide Conditional Text dialog, uncheck Show Condition
Indicators. Or, at the book level, select
Kelly McDaniel wrote:
The brethren and cistern, you mean.
I don't think you really mean cistern.
Richard
--
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
--
rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
--
Kenneth C. Benson wrote:
I'm not sure the suites are that good a deal. I like to
upgrade certain programs (Indesign and Framemaker) every
release. But with other programs I don't feel like I need the
latest release all the time. So when I go to upgrade, I don't
want to pay to upgrade
Bill Swallow wrote:
Is there a way to create a list of images copied into
document? We can create a list of images imported by
reference easily enough.
Well, the latter consists of the path and name of the referenced files.
For embedded images, FM doesn't have that information, so the
Dan Vint wrote:
As these files are saved back to Native (via FrameScript)
I'm getting the following error/warning from Frame:
SnagIt.jpg
This has occurred on 4 different books, not sure if they have
been all Frame 6 or not, but this last one is 6. One of the
books we couldn't track
David Kuhn wrote:
I tried to insert a Running Header 5, just changing the
definition that exists from $paratext[H1_Heading1] to
$paratext[Part].
There is already a Part paragraph format defined, but it
exists only in the Part document type, not the Chapter document type.
But when I
Art Campbell wrote:
Actually, you can set the contents of $volnum to hold
user-specified text, which is the method I was thinking of
using... Then just plug it in either to the user variable, or
into the header.
slap_forehead /Of course! David mentioned needing both the part number
and
Theresa de Valence wrote:
One of my techniques for quickly conveying an idea is to use
a small line drawing (lines, boxes, circles and text). I have
been doing these drawings in Frame for many years, having
never developed any greater flexability with any other
drawing software.
Pinkham, Jim wrote:
Unfortunately, I came to a screeching halt on the Update Book
run to fill in the LOR when FM said couldn't update this
book because it contains no openable nongenerated files.
This is guesswork, but I'm thinking this book refers to one
of the component sub-books of
Kelly McDaniel wrote:
Linda,
Thanks, no, I haven't changed emphasis nor deleted it. It's
still in the catalog...Kelly.
-Original Message-
From: Linda G. Gallagher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:05 AM
To: Kelly McDaniel; 'Framers'
Subject: RE: FM
MARC CREAGHAN wrote:
Here is a second stab at my current challenge. I want to
import some Illustrator document with transparencies and they
are leaving some unsightly black splotches behind.
Is there a preferred format for importing vector graphics?
Should I be using eps or tiff or can
Huntley Eshenroder wrote:
No, cannot remove the link with the full Acrobat package. In
fact, after removing all links, it is still active.
This is for Acrobat 7 -- might be different in other versions; Adobe
keeps rearranging the menus.
1) Select Edit Preferences.
2) In the Categories
Huntley Eshenroder wrote:
Penelope and Richard hit the nail on the head as to the
cause. Doesn't look as though there is a good solution.
I don't understand. Turning off Automatically detect URLs from text _is_
a good solution.
Any hyperlinks you want in the PDF should be properly created
Austin Meredith wrote:
I've recently upgraded to FM8 and Acrobat8 and now the new
links in the Acrobat documents I am generating won't function.
I suspect I must have had some option set in my old Acrobat7
that I have forgotten to set in my new Acrobat8, because the
links I used to
Diane Schaefer wrote:
If you copy and paste non-Frame, non-HTML information into
your (unstructured, 7.2) Frame document, the information is
copied into a text frame. In my documents, and perhaps in
yours, the font specified is Times New Roman, which isn't in
my font repertoire. Hence
Leah Smaller wrote:
I have 2 books where book 1 uses files 1 - 10 and book 2 uses
some of the same files (let's say files 5 - 7).
I want to set up the books (files) so that in book 1 all the
pages are numbered consecutively, starting from page 1 in
file 1. Thus the first page in file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Need some help regarding overlapping text frames.
Document has them--lots of them. Result: can not move
around on the pages that are overlapping.
Very problematic for editing.
How do I correct this problem.
It's not clear what you're asking. Do you need
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a document that contains multiple pages with
overlapping text frames.
Such pages can not be edited in their current state.
How do I remove the overlaps so that these pages can be edited?
The pages can not be deleted as there is no source other than
the
Pete Rourke wrote:
I started from the book addList of Figures using the
paragraph tag, Caption, but I have not figured out how to put
this into the reference page (like what the standard index
does) to do the alphabetical sorting.
If you want alphabetical, you need an index.
Frank Stearns wrote:
(This entire process could be scripted, of course.)
Or, you could use IXgen to do this in just a few moments. You
can create markers from specific para tags, such as those
used for the captions; and you can create markers of whatever
type you wanted (including
J. Paul Kent wrote:
Just before a recent deadline, I had to cobble together a
bunch of content from disparate locations.
I'm going to need to archive my source files soon and it
occurs to me that locating all of the graphics is going to be tricky.
Nope, if they're really _linked_
Pat Christenson wrote:
^\p
^$
but they only find paragraphs that have table or frame
anchors in them.
Don't know those. I learned that \P finds the start of a pgf and \p
finds the end, so to find empty pgfs, I use:
\P\p
HTH!
Richard
--
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Stuart Rogers wrote:
Graeme R Forbes wrote:
I have a proof consisting in a sequence of lines across a
page, each a
paragraph, and each line separated from the next by a shallow
anchored frame that contains a separator line. Each
line/para is set
to keep with the next one since
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to accomplish (Structured FM 7.2 under XP)
the following?
Q. question
Choices
A- [Item] + Autonumbering
B- [Item] + Autonumbering
C- [Item] + Autonumbering
D- [Item] + Autonumbering
Answer: A
If the right Answer changes to C, for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had thought that Framemaker supported hypertext markers
that allow tyou to create links for PDFs which launch a new
email in the email application and prepopulate the address
and subject line.
Art replied:
Highlight your link text.
Special Hypertext To to
Brad Simmons wrote:
The past several times that I've regenerated my FrameMaker
8.0 book (originally created in 7.2) I've gotten the
following message:
Show/Hide setting for FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_ADDED is inconsistent
What does this mean? I've never seen a track changing
feature, nor
Jakob Fix wrote:
I would like to know if anybody has some reliable first-hand
information about the future of FrameMaker. I have recently
You know, this question was worth serious consideration the first dozen
or so times it came up. It was mildly amusing the next dozen or so. Now
-- after
Brewster, Christopher C wrote:
I think the memory issue is indeed the cause for this. I did
my process again and saved after each insertion. No problems
occurred. But I think software should handle a memory issue
much more gracefully than simply closing without saving-such
as warning
maxwell.hoffmann wrote:
(I've read the other replies to this post also.) Like Bernard
A., I too am at the annual FrameMaker Chautauqua. (A great
venue for new info and easy access to experts; I highly
recommend it!)
I attended the 2005 Chautauqua and thought it was well worth my
Carrie Baker wrote:
Can I create a cross reference to somewhere, when the text
that appears in the cross reference is something that I type
in, and not the text that appears in Heading 2 (i.e. will say
xy statistics, even though the header it jumps to is called
Displaying xy statistics)?
Mollye Barrett wrote:
I'm working with an unstructured document set that uses text
insets. When insets are imported into the target document,
the empty paragraph tag following the inset automatically
becomes a repeat of the first style in the previous inset.
So, if the inset starts
Rene Stephenson
We have the same problem and have heard it's just a bug w/ FM
7.2 unstructured insets. Our solution is to use Silicon
Prairie's Paragraph Tools to Remove Paragraph Overrides
immediately before generating the book for our output formats.
It's not a bug specific to 7.2,
Pete Rourke wrote:
On a generated index, I have a two column spread
alphabetically. My problem is trying to find the right
combination of 'keep with', Widow/Orphan lines, Format to
keep it from leaving the Group Titles IX paragraph with its
Index line at the bottom of a column or
Pete Rourke wrote:
I went through each index header letter, and they were all
the Group Titles IX, but I did do the update all.
This partially fixed my problem. It took care of all but one
letter - O which with its index line is on one page, and the
content is on the next.
The column
William Abernathy wrote:
My last attempt at getting this answered resulted in zero
responses. I will assume that it was because my post was not
a model of concision or clarity. So I'll try it again,
hitting the highlights.
When inserting PDFMark bookmarks to other PDF documents, is
Minor clarification. I said:
Where are you putting the PostScript code frame? I'm purely
guessing, but I'd put it on the first body page of the doc,
I should have said the first body page of the first file in the book.
The point is to locate it ahead of all the other bookmark sources in
Pat Christenson wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to suppress the TableCleaner
message in the Console when you first launch FrameMaker? Thanks.
Do you mean these lines?
TableCleaner 1.7 Version loaded.
Tools for cleaning up and formatting tables.
For more information, choose Help
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