Graphics after a sidehead paragraph will not stay at anchoringposition

2009-12-15 Thread Combs, Richard
Andersen, Verner wrote: > The graphics frame is placed above the insertion line. > I include a test.fm where you see the anchoring position. > > The sidehead i the h4 (heading 4). As long as you have a sentence following > the h4 there is no problem. It only occurs when the screen shot comes > im

Graphics after a sidehead paragraph will not stay at anchoring position

2009-12-15 Thread Combs, Richard
Art Campbell wrote: > Are you using a dedicated anchor frame that doesn't have any text and only > serves to hold the anchor, or are you trying to put the anchor into a > text-bearing paragraph? It's an inline anchored frame. It doesn't matter whether the pgf containing it also contains text. The

Subject: RE: FrameMaker 9 Issues

2009-12-16 Thread Combs, Richard
Art Campbell wrote: > Yeah, Wordpad maintains some level of Word compatibility. Well, WordPad saves files as RTF by default. But you can choose to save as text, DOS text, or Unicode text. > If you need an editor with enhanced features, look at NotePad -- freeware > and pay versions; it's great

how to prevent empty pages in a book? (part xxviii)

2009-12-16 Thread Combs, Richard
Jakob Fix wrote: > So this means that Frame doesn't consider it an empty page and doesn't > delete it. Which makes perfect sense. > > Also, I just ran Miramo again to regenerate the FrameMaker files and > it turns out that I was wrong, and the initial documents are already > two-page documents w

how to prevent empty pages in a book? (part xxviii)

2009-12-16 Thread Combs, Richard
Rick Quatro wrote: > You can tell that it's a disconnected page by choosing View > Text Symbols > and looking at the page. You can see the section symbol on the second page, > so you know that it is not connected to the page the contains your table. Hmm, I'd forgotten to consider the possibility

how to prevent empty pages in a book? (part xxviii)

2009-12-16 Thread Combs, Richard
> But the last page of the doc is always going to have a section symbol > (end of flow). I meant the last _non-empty_ page, of course. :-} Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 --

how to prevent empty pages in a book? (part xxviii)

2009-12-16 Thread Combs, Richard
Rick Quatro wrote: > Click in the paragraph on the second page. Now press your up arrow key > several times. If this was a connected page, the cursor would move up to > page one, but it never will because the page is disconnected. Since the screenshot shows the table ending near the bottom of th

how to prevent empty pages in a book? (part xxviii)

2009-12-16 Thread Combs, Richard
Peter Gold wrote: > I don't have FrameMaker available now, but IIRC, there's a setting > under Edit > Update that can turn off automatic checking of links when > a file is opened. I can't remember if it's book-wide, document-wide, > or application-wide, depending on the active context when you se

"Anchoring" Callout Text to a Figure

2009-12-17 Thread Combs, Richard
David Spreadbury wrote: > Not to beat this horse much further into the ground, but why would I place > a callout to an item in a graphic outside the frame containing the graphic? > > Obviously, if I place the callout outside the frame containing the > illustration, there is not binding of the cal

Frame 9 Has No Arial Narrow?

2009-12-18 Thread Combs, Richard
Galanter, Lea wrote: > I just switched from Frame 8 to TCS2 and am starting down the road of > converting my Frame files from Frame 8 to Frame 9. Everything converted > fine, but when I created a PDF, all my headings (which are in Arial > Narrow), became Times. I can't seem to fix this. I then ch

X-refs working differently in FM 7.2 vs. FM 9?

2009-12-22 Thread Combs, Richard
Spectrum Writing wrote: > In FM9 (all patched and updated), I decided to clean up the template and > use > less tags and I now have a single tag called StepNumber that has the > autonumber format set to the following: N:< >.\t < =0> (This allows > the > numbering to be automatically reset to "1"

numbering in character format?

2009-12-23 Thread Combs, Richard
obair wrote: > I have working numbering in paragraph formats. > > I am trying to put a number in the middle of a sentence in this case. To reiterate what others have said: only paragraph formats can have autonumbers, not character formats. The only way to put a number in an arbitrary location

My generated lists creates "room for sideheads"

2009-02-03 Thread Combs, Richard
Andersen, Verner wrote: > In most chapters I use sideheads, but not in the TOC, Index and > Glossary. Although the master pages are set up not to have sideheads > there are sideheads in the generated lists if I import the formats from > my template and update the book. > > If I remove the sidehe

My document "properties" in template turns sideheads on for severalfiles where it is unwanted

2009-02-03 Thread Combs, Richard
Andersen, Verner wrote: > I just found out that when I import "Document properties" to all files > in by book the sideheads are suddenly turned on in several files. TOC, > Glossary, Date page, Inner front. That's right, it's Document Properties, not Page Layout. Sorry 'bout that. Richard Ri

My document "properties" in template turns sideheads on for severalfiles where it is unwanted

2009-02-04 Thread Combs, Richard
Baruch Brodersen wrote: > My test showed no effect on column layout (i.e., sideheads) by importing > any > or all Document Properties formats. Importing Page Layouts however, did. Column layout and room for side heads are two different issues. I did some testing, too. I opened an index file, whi

Handling Large FrameMaker Books

2009-02-04 Thread Combs, Richard
Joseph wrote: > I am working on a 650-page document in unstructured FrameMaker 8. Due to > the > size of the document, its incredibly difficult for FrameMaker to execute > book-wide commands, such as performing an update or generating the TOC. > I have thought about splitting the document into two

Fm 8 - Track Changes - problems!

2009-02-04 Thread Combs, Richard
Stephen O'Brien wrote: > The Track Changes feature uses, I assume, > conditional formats to color text and manage changes (refuse, accept). > > Problem: This feature seems to result in an > unknown (un-named) conditional format affecting > neighboring anchor symbols. So when I specify > that only

Getting a reference to an imported graphic in an anchored frame ofa paragraph.

2009-02-05 Thread Combs, Richard
Berman, Marta wrote: > I need some help. I've never written an FrameScript in my life, nor looked > at the help until an hour ago, so have mercy if this is a simple question. > > I need to apply the PgfLIndent of any paragraph that contains an AFrame to > the imported graphic inside the frame.

inter-file cross-reference issue

2009-02-05 Thread Combs, Richard
Samantha Ascheri wrote: > I am using FM 8. I have several small (topic) files that I am importing by > reference into a larger (chapter) file. > > Some of these files contain cross-references that function as expected in > the source file, but not in the file into which they are imported. The > c

Frame 7 and PDF

2009-02-05 Thread Combs, Richard
Susan Curtzwiler wrote: > I am having trouble with creating a simple PDF file. I have uninstalled > I used the Save As and selected PDF, got the normal setup windows, clicked > on Set. > Then, I get a message saying that > "FrameMaker could not find Acrobat Distiller printer instance, which mus

sort order in an index

2009-02-05 Thread Combs, Richard
Kristen Abbott wrote: > I have a document with bug numbers entered as index entries. (I could > use a custom marker type, but the same question applies...) > > Can I change the sort order of an index to list the page number of the > index (or custom marker) entry FIRST, instead of the actual ent

PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-09 Thread Combs, Richard
Charlene_Glover at emainc.com wrote: > Good morning, > I have been working on a manual for a while now, the manual is > projected to be over 2000 pages to include, photographs, autocad > drawings and diagrams. My client decided Friday that he now wants the > entire document in word. Is th

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

2009-02-10 Thread Combs, Richard
Avraham Makeler wrote: > I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that > follows > the table's insertion page, so leaving a blank page. So the table's anchor > point is left at the top of the blank page, and the actual table itself > starts at the top of the next page. > >

New topic_ Converting Word to FMKR

2009-02-10 Thread Combs, Richard
Susan Curtzwiler wrote: > A couple of weeks ago, I successfully used "Import by copy into document" > from Word 2007 to FMKR 7. > Today, all I get in the conversion box is a list of files to choose and > it does not include Word 2007 as a lone option, only Word for Windows > 6.0/7.0. > Then,

Framemaker SDK and Framescript

2009-02-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Brewster, Christopher C wrote: > I'm a long-time Word user and have written countless large and small > programs with Word VBA. Many are to add functionality to the program and > many others are to perform such tasks as format conversion. I'm unclear > if there's an equivalent for Framemaker. I'd

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

2009-02-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Avraham Makeler quoted himself saying: > > > Ok, end of mystery. Found the problem: I only just noticed that the Table > > Designer also has an Orphan Rows field. The TableCaption style was set to > > 99. > > Thanks again to all. IIRC, TableCaption is the paragraph in which the table anchor is lo

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

2009-02-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Avraham Makeler wrote: > Tentative conclusion: it seems that the setting: > > "Keep With Next" = true > > of the table caption (or maybe of the table anchor on that line) is > percolating down through all the table rows even though they themselves > have > that setting set to false. > > Commen

TimeSavers Plugin Settings

2009-02-12 Thread Combs, Richard
quills at airmail.net wrote: > You must change your printer instance to the Postscript printer, and > then print your book to file. Your result will be a .ps (postscript) > file. This is the file you will distill. Quick clarification/amplification: Set your printer (in FM) to Adobe PDF. Don't us

Book Files import in random order

2009-02-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Butler,Darren wrote: > When importing a group of several doc files into a book , the order of > the files is jumbled: > > Ex: > > Section 2-3 > Section 2-4 > Section 2-5 > Section 2-6 > Section 2-7 > Section 2-8 > Section 2-9 > Section 2-10 > > -imports like this- > > Section 2-9 > Section 2

FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Combs, Richard
Shmuel Wolfson wrote: > In general, you don't want this. But we have some manual that have an > index consisting of a list of functions. In these cases, it would be > preferable to have the function name hyperlinked as well. > > Is there any automatic way of doing this? Yes. Don't make an index

FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Combs, Richard
Shlomo Perets wrote: > If there is no character formatting present in the index, differentiating > the page number from the index term, the hypertext marker present in front > of the first page number extends its active area on both sides of the > marker: to the beginning of the paragraph (includ

FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Combs, Richard
Shlomo Perets wrote: > If you examine the index in the sample Ecology book (included in the > samples/overview/book folder under the FrameMaker installation folder), and > inspect the hypertext markers and their active area, you will see that the > index terms are active together with the first hy

Aligning Autonumbers

2009-02-23 Thread Combs, Richard
Alan Litchfield wrote: > Like Art said, pretty strange way to do it, but that's what graphic > designers > are for right ;) Actually, right-aligning numbers of varying lengths isn't that strange. It gives you a consistent amount of space between the number and the following text, regardless of th

Book to .mif plugin

2009-02-26 Thread Combs, Richard
Andersen, Verner wrote: > Hi > I am sure there must be a utility which saves all files in a book to > .mif files. Do you know where I can get such a plugin? Mif2Go will do that (www.omsys.com). Or, if you have FrameScript, there are scripts that will do it. Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Te

Zapf Dingbats mystery

2009-02-27 Thread Combs, Richard
Please be aware that Zapf Dingbats is a copyrighted work that may not simply be passed around freely. > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:14

Zapf Dingbats mystery

2009-02-27 Thread Combs, Richard
I hastily wrote: > Please be aware that Zapf Dingbats is a copyrighted work that may not > simply be passed around freely. Sorry, I should have suggested an alternative course of action. This typeface is available from Adobe in PostScript Type 1 ($26) and OpenType ($29) versions ( http://tinyurl

Fixing lots of X-refs

2009-01-02 Thread Combs, Richard
John Sgammato wrote: > I am whiling away a snowy Boston day fixing hundreds of broken x-refs. > > My process: I update the book and get the long, long list of bum links. > Then I click on them one at a time, working my way patiently through the > list. But my patience is wearing thin, and maybe i

pilcrow before tag name in character catalog

2009-01-08 Thread Combs, Richard
Milan Davidovic wrote: > I thought that a pilcrow appearing before the tag name in character > catalog meant that the tag in question was used in a paragraph format, > but I can't seem to make one appear there myself. I'm certain that's not the case. I suspect Peter is correct -- someone got clev

Does FM crash on Large files on a regular basis?

2009-01-08 Thread Combs, Richard
Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:26:39 +0200, Orly Zimmerman > wrote: > > >I have an FM file that is 14 MB with lots of Visio embedded > >drawings in different conditionalized rows of the tables. > ... > >Now, each time I do a compare, FM crashes on me. The corrupted > >file (w

Does FM crash on Large files on a regular basis?

2009-01-08 Thread Combs, Richard
Sent too soon. I also meant to recommend an alternative workflow for Orly. Instead of importing native Visio files as OLE objects (either linked or embedded), print the Visio files to PDF and import that into FM. I think that's a better solution than Art's suggestion of exporting to a graphics fo

Does FM crash on Large files on a regular basis?

2009-01-08 Thread Combs, Richard
Alan Litchfield wrote: > I would second Richard's recommendation. I would also add that when I > have printed Visio files to PDF in the past I often get strange > printing problems show up (depending on the version of Visio). These > have been lines that appear in the printed output, text that tru

How can I avoid having to rescale linked screen shots

2009-01-12 Thread Combs, Richard
Andersen, Verner wrote: > All my screen shots in Framemaker are linked .png. When I write a new > version of the manual I simply replace all the changed screen shots with > with new ones with the same name and voila all screen shots in the > manual are updated. > > Alas, when I open Framemaker th

How can I avoid having to rescale linked screen shots

2009-01-12 Thread Combs, Richard
Milan Davidovic wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Combs, Richard > wrote: > > Stuart's advice is also important. After import into FM, never change > > the size of a graphic by changing its scaling percentage. > > Are there hazards (other than the prob

Lurking fonts: for info

2006-03-22 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Rickaby wrote: > Here's an example of a MIF fragment with a bad font name: > > > > > > > > > > > > > ... (etc) > > It's the 'Frutiger-Roman' that is triggering the missing font > erro

Page Size

2006-03-29 Thread Combs, Richard
John Bevan wrote: > I want to set up a file to be able to fit an A3-size graphic. > When I change the page size in FM (Format-Page Layout - Page > Size) and select A3 the dial ogue box shows 'Custom' (instead > of 'A3') Firstly, why is this?. Dunno. When I change to A3, close the Page Size

A bug & note on using .png graphics....

2006-05-04 Thread Combs, Richard
Art Campbell wrote: > Color list? You mean like FM's defined colors? > I don't think so. We're talking digital photographs here, > with millions of colors. > The 8-bit limitation is just the bit depth of the file. FM > doesn't do anything at all with the colors of graphics and > the colors it

A bug & note on using .png graphics....

2006-05-05 Thread Combs, Richard
Art Campbell wrote: > I think we're using slightly different terms when describing > the same files. > In photos/photoshop, an 8-bit depth means 8 bits of red, > green, and blue info. 16 million shades (256X256X256). Which > The color definition thing is really wierd. I never saw that > ha

A bug & note on using .png graphics....

2006-05-05 Thread Combs, Richard
Fred Ridder wrote: > If this website is one of the places you have been learning > from, then perhaps we have identified the root source of some > of the issues. Even on a quick reading, this page contains > some things that are laughably inaccurate. For one example: Wow. An inkjet printer

Run-in head default punctuation and hard return will not conditionalize

2006-05-15 Thread Combs, Richard
Wendy Fish wrote: > How can I get the default punctuation (colon + two > spaces) and hard return of my runin paragraph tag to > conditionalize? I've tried just about everything. I even > changed the paragraph style to "Body" and conditionalized the > entire paragraph (hard return included), bu

preventing specific words from being hyphenated

2006-05-26 Thread Combs, Richard
Jon Harvey wrote: > Is there a way to prevent specific words from being > hyphenated on a soft carriage return? I would like our > company name to always appear on a single line.

'Bold' not inserted in Character Formats

2006-05-26 Thread Combs, Richard
Martha J Davidson wrote: > At 04:57 AM 5/26/2006, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > >I have a weird problem on my hands, and I probably have had it for a > >long time (years). I have a problem with setting some of my > Character > >Tags to bold. I am not sure whether it is isolated to the Helvetica

Links to captions in PDF

2006-05-30 Thread Combs, Richard
Don wrote: > I don't really mind this work-around, except that placing a > caption above an illustration is very nonstandard and may > require an explanation in the preface. "Very nonstandard"? You've led a sheltered life. ;-) In printed books, I've seen figure captions above, below, to the

Missing font in FM although it shows fine in Word?

2006-11-01 Thread Combs, Richard
Rene Stephenson wrote: > In our current templates, we have a character tag called > EmphasisBold that specifies everything "As Is" except > Angle==Italic and Weight==Bold. This seems like a logical way > to have a flexible character tag. However, the paragraph > formats that are used in the b

Missing font in FM although it shows fine in Word?

2006-11-01 Thread Combs, Richard
Rene Stephenson wrote: > Thanks for the insight! Yes, we do have Minion Pro. I've > prowled through the maker.ini, and I'm wondering if the line > I need to add would be in [UnknownToKnownFontMap] as: > > Minion Web, *, *, *=Minion Pro, *, *, * Caution: My previous font-mapping experience ha

Redefining multiple pgf formats (was RE: Missing font in FM although it shows fine in Word? - Global change?)

2006-11-01 Thread Combs, Richard
Rene Stephenson wrote: > As a follow-on to this topic, our "proper" solution would > probably be to update all the relevant paragraph formats in > all the templates to use Minion Pro rather than Minion Web. I > don't suppose anyone would know of a quick way to do this en masse? If you create

Disabling ad hoc formatting controls in FM

2006-11-01 Thread Combs, Richard
Lester C. Smalley wrote: > Absolutely - but you can turn them off now via the View Menu > - just uncheck the Quick Access Bar. Of course, you can turn > it back on and there's still the keyboard shortcuts and the > Format > Style menu (sigh) > > On Wednesday, November 01, 2006 01:02 PM, Ren

Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Combs, Richard
James Dyson wrote: > Has anyone noticeably improved the rate at which graphics are > loaded in Frame while running on a PC when they upgraded > their graphics card? We are considering doing so here, and I > suspect it will make a vast improvement. Our PCs are pretty > current. I don't want to

Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Combs, Richard
James Dyson wrote: > Yes, the graphics are on a server, but we haven't ever > noticed any slow data rates in the past. We can't move the So you're saying that, on the _same_ PCs with the _same_ graphics subsystem and memory, the graphics used to load faster? Well, then your question is answered

CMYK/RGB conversion

2006-11-07 Thread Combs, Richard
Christiane Crety wrote: > I know there are also tools that can convert to CMYK after > creating the pdf file, but I would really prefer it if the > Distiller could take care of it... > > Does anyone know how to keep the original CMYK values in the > pdf output? I'm pulling my hair out I'm

Splitting cells

2006-11-16 Thread Combs, Richard
Gillian Flato wrote: > How do you split a Table cell in Unstructured Frame? If the "cell" is actually multiple cells that have been straddled, you can unstraddle them (the Table > Unstraddle command only appears when straddled cells are selected). But if this "cell" began life as a single cel

Unexpected problem with straddling table cells

2006-11-17 Thread Combs, Richard
Pat Christenson wrote: > A client's template currently has Cautions formatted as a > three-cell table: The Caution icon (in a reference) frame is > in the first cell, the word "Caution" (in the Autonumbering > field of the CautionHead) is in the second, and the writer > types text in the thir

Unexpected problem with straddling table cells

2006-11-17 Thread Combs, Richard
Pat Christenson wrote: > Hi Richard - > > The route you suggest is probably what we'll end up going > with but we wanted to explore this other alternative because > it's less work when upgrading existing docs to the new templates. Unless I misunderstood, it's not more work -- in fact, it's the

Way Too Much Corruption

2006-11-20 Thread Combs, Richard
Jim Pinkham wrote: > I have a folder with three versions of a manual (in > subfolders) replete with conditional text, insets, and all > the marvels of single sourcing. I haven't worked on these > files for about 6 weeks. This morning all of them are coming > up as corrupt, including the subfo

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

2006-11-22 Thread Combs, Richard
Hedley Finger wrote: > Occasionally a chapter file ends on a right page > (odd-numbered). Because the pagination is set to even number > of pages, the default Left master is applied to the final > left page (even-numbered) of the chapter. We would like to > apply a special master page devoid

Clarification of table title problem.

2006-10-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Rhea Barron wrote: > Since my tables are generally narrower than the text column > they're in, this is a problem. I don't want the titles to be > wider than the tables. > I can't find any way to make the titles narrower when the > title paragraph tag is flush left. The minute I change the >

Clarification of table title problem. (long, nerdy response)

2006-10-03 Thread Combs, Richard
Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I think you are misdiagnosing the problem. Try this: Yeah, Rhea and Fred R. were also kind enough to point out (off-list) that I missed the point. Sigh. ;-) But I've played a little with some brand-new docs created from the (default) FM portrait template,

Best Practice: Multi-Page PDFs to Frame?

2006-10-05 Thread Combs, Richard
Jim Pinkham wrote: > Thanks for this, Art, and my apologies for not being more > precise. In our case, we have multiple-page, sometimes > graphic-intensive PDFs, provided by our vendors, that we > include as appendices today. The advantage to being able to > bring them purely (or relatively p

Global Search and Replace

2006-10-05 Thread Combs, Richard
Ben Anderson wrote: > I'm sure this has been asked/answered before, but is there a > way to globally replace one paragraph tag with another in a > book file? For example, I have a tag called "X-1" and I want > to replace it with "A-3". I recommend opening and saving all files in the book fir

Frame2000 still available?

2006-10-06 Thread Combs, Richard
Charles Grinnell wrote: > Anyone knows whether Frame2000 is still available for > purchase? Thanks in advance! Huh? What's a Frame2000? It's not a FrameMaker version -- those are (going back to mid-90s) 5.5.6, 6, 7, 7.1, and 7.2. Richard -- Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Pol

Can User Variable value be changed at book level?

2006-10-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Radha Padmanabhan wrote: > I have got a FM book with about 50 chapters (files). But > they are logically grouped as 5 guides. All chapters in all > guides have footers with Product Name, Release No. and Date > and Guide identification. For each guide, the footer has a > User Variable-Docume

paste special ...text option

2006-10-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Cavanaugh wrote: > There is an easier approach. HOVtext is a public domain > system utility that automatically strips formatting from > items you have copied to the clipboard. So when you paste, it > has already been reduced to simple text. I've been using it > here for a while now, a

Continuous Numbering in framemaker

2006-10-18 Thread Combs, Richard
Tammy Van Boening wrote: > Ok - a quick follow-up to this. For the "empty" paragraph > tag, you need some kind of source text for the paragraph to > select for the x-ref, so what I did was set up an auto-number > format with the phrase "TotalPageCount" and set the color to > white so it doesn'

Continuous Numbering in framemaker

2006-10-18 Thread Combs, Richard
I wrote: > It does require continuous page > numbering (unlike the FM help's method), but if you're using > the <$pagenum> building block for the xref, I assume that > isn't an issue. I'll save someone else the trouble and point out the stupidity of that myself. Clearly, you're using contin

general publication quiestion

2006-10-19 Thread Combs, Richard
Daniel Emory wrote: > --- Charles Beck wrote: > > Maybe I'm missing something, and then again, maybe I'm not. > I too have > > always considered it a strange paradox when I see the words > "This page > > intentionally left blank." But there is no need to use it. > ===

OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-20 Thread Combs, Richard
Daniel Emory wrote: > The fact is that the US military is the only true laboratory > where technical documentation is subjected to extensive > post-publication review to determine its effectiveness in the > real world. Findings resulting from analyses of actual > foul-ups lead to continuing

OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-20 Thread Combs, Richard
Daniel Emory wrote: > Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing > commercial manuals. I do know, however, that most tech > writers who produce manuals for commercial products remain > blissfully unaware of the problems caused by their outputs. A valid point. Although som

OT: "derogatory phrase" (was RE: MIL specs)

2006-10-23 Thread Combs, Richard
Nandini G wrote: > Why hurt Muslims' feelings with creative expressions such as > Islamofascists? Why should this hurt (non-fascist) Muslims' feelings? Shouldn't decent Muslims be just as contemptuous of and outraged by these murderous monsters as decent Christians, Buddhists, Hindi, atheists,

PDF editing issues

2006-10-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Shenton, David (DTRN) wrote: > I have some weird things happening with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 > when attempting to delete text in a 200 page pdf. I was given > an old file to edit and I'm not sure what program the source > file came from. > > Using the Touchup Text Tool to delete text nothing happ

Disconnected Pages

2006-10-31 Thread Combs, Richard
Texan Scriber wrote: > Does anybody know how to specify the master page to use when > the current page is filled with text? I have combined all my > master pages into one template file. After I create an > Appendix say, and the first page is filled with content, the > page that follows does n

INSTALLING SCRIPT WITHOUT A LABEL

2006-09-06 Thread Combs, Richard
Michael Zaichenko wrote: > Hi All, > does anyone know how to install a script through Install > Script command so that it would not appear in the > FrameScript>Scripts menu. It is not an event script. > Michael If it's not an event script and you don't want it on the Scripts menu, then don't in

TOC and template

2006-09-06 Thread Combs, Richard
mathieu jacquet wrote: > I'm using a template which contains a specific paragraph > style (called "Operation Title"). > > The only occurence of text that is formatted using the > paragraph style "Operation Title" is in the header of the template. I don't understand what you mean by "header of

Importing images from a CAD system

2006-09-07 Thread Combs, Richard
Gillian Flato wrote: > The hardware tech writers at my company use Solidworks > creations in their Frame docs. They told me that they don't > use the DXF file because they are so large. Our engineers > create them for 11 x 17 paper. They always convert the DXF > file to a high-res JPEG and th

Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Kotzen, Edward wrote: > I have a couple of documents that Frame keeps telling me that > have unresolved cross references. > > > > When I search for them, they are not found. Any ideas? If this is in the context of a book, there's another possibility: Are there any files in the book that prod

good flowchart software to use with Frame

2006-09-14 Thread Combs, Richard
Dov Isaacs wrote: > PNG is a raster format that does not scale well. > Visio is primarily vector. You want to preserve the content > as vector. Best best is to produce PDF from Visio and import > either the PDF or EPS (saved from the PDF in Acrobat) into > your FrameMaker document. I'm using

good flowchart software to use with Frame

2006-09-15 Thread Combs, Richard
Fred Staal wrote: > We use Visio and import the charts into FM 6 as a linked > objects. The process seems stable, retains vector format, and > avoids any conversion issues. We used that method back when we only had an occasional Visio drawing, and it was OK for that. It is, of course, Windows-

QUESTION: Creating a DIFF doc comparing 2 conditionalizedversions of manual

2006-09-25 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen Mardahl wrote: > Bodvar - do you do a compare of the entire FM book in one > step? My complaint about the FM compare is that it is per > chapter. I need to do the entire book. I am sure there is a > FrameScript solution to such a task, but tell me - is there a > built-in method that I h

Chapter and appendix numbering in a TOC

2006-09-25 Thread Combs, Richard
Jon Harvey wrote: > I'm stumped over a simple problem: My book includes 12 > chapters and several appendices. Throughout the book, I am > using the variable "<$chapnum>" to display the numbering of > chapters and appendices. In the book file, I am resetting the > numbering to "1" and "Alphabe

Two-column index

2006-09-27 Thread Combs, Richard
Niels Fan?e wrote: > I have a book consisting of quite a number of documents. Some > of these documents have an index of their own (for historical > reasons... And because making a book-wide index wouldn't make > any sense). I'm having trouble imagining what kind of book has chapter- or secti

Indexes - a bit off topic

2006-09-27 Thread Combs, Richard
Fred Ridder wrote: > Is the list in Jeopardy mode now? > > This post seems to be the question to an unsolicited answer > that was posted by Paula Pressley this morning. I'll take "Approaching Friday" for $300, Fred! ;-) Richard -- Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. r

Paragraph Numbering

2006-09-29 Thread Combs, Richard
kgrace4715 at aol.com wrote: > 1. Make numbers increment by variable increments 2. Make > the sub numbers ( 10.030.1 and 10.030.2) increment by one > when using the first number as a "base or root" 10.030 and 10.045 Well, you can't _autonumber_ a sequence that with arbitrary increments. You

Hypertext link problems

2006-09-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen L. Zorn wrote: > I'm running into problems with hypertext mailto: links. If > the email addy has a period, underscore, or dash in it, only > the addy after that mark appears on the To: line when > executed from the PDF. Any ideas? No idea why it's happening, but here's something to try:

png graphic: insufficient memory to import file.....

2007-04-11 Thread Combs, Richard
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

Another missing fonts question

2007-04-18 Thread Combs, Richard
Cadel_Janice at emc.com 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

Table title alignment oddity

2007-04-18 Thread Combs, Richard
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 colum

Looking for a documentation portal example

2007-04-18 Thread Combs, Richard
Michael M?ller-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 effic

Geeky Friday Humor

2007-04-20 Thread Combs, Richard
Lin Surasky wrote: > Okay, since we're on the subject... > > I once parked next to a VERY old, VERY well-maintained Dodge Dart. > Obviously someone's baby. > License plate: OBJET I once came upon this drop-dead gorgeous classic two-tone Rolls-Royce. Its license plate holder read "My Other Car I

ASCII IN FRAMESCRIPT

2007-04-30 Thread Combs, Richard
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 di

Missing leader lines in TOC

2007-08-01 Thread Combs, Richard
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. >Now, when we run the TOC, all the other he

Side heads and master pages

2007-08-02 Thread Combs, Richard
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

Vertical spacing inconsistencies

2007-08-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Rickaby wrote: > Anyone following this thread may remember that I was > suffering from inconsistent vertical spacing between headings > and following paras when no overrides were active, and that I > found that creating a new document and copying selected > contents to it removed the pro

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