RE: converting email addresses to hyperlink

2009-01-01 Thread David Spreadbury
The complete procedure, from start to finish, with an alternate method.   == 1. Type email address; i.e., n...@email.com 2. Copy email address to clipboard (highlight email address, press Ctrl+C) 3. Select Special > Hypertext 4. In Hypertext dialog, select pulldown and select Go to URL 5. In Hypert

converting email addresses to hyperlink

2009-01-01 Thread David Spreadbury
The complete procedure, from start to finish, with an alternate method. ? == 1. Type email address; i.e., name at email.com 2. Copy email address to clipboard (highlight email address, press Ctrl+C) 3. Select Special > Hypertext 4. In Hypertext dialog, select pulldown and select Go to URL 5. In Hyp

RE: Fixing lots of X-refs

2008-12-31 Thread David Spreadbury
rom within Frame. This would have saved you all of this cleanup work. --- On Wed, 12/31/08, David Spreadbury wrote: From: David Spreadbury Subject: RE: Fixing lots of X-refs To: pe...@knowhowpro.com, "John Sgammato" Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 1

Fixing lots of X-refs

2008-12-31 Thread David Spreadbury
rom within Frame. This would have saved you all of this cleanup work. --- On Wed, 12/31/08, David Spreadbury wrote: From: David Spreadbury Subject: RE: Fixing lots of X-refs To: peter at knowhowpro.com, "John Sgammato" Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Date: Wednesday, December 31,

RE: Fixing lots of X-refs

2008-12-31 Thread David Spreadbury
John, Unless you have a backup of the book and associated files that are unchanged, then the MIF method may be the easiest way to go.   If you had renamed the chapters from the book the cross-references would have been automatically recreated and it would have saved you all of this work.   In the

Fixing lots of X-refs

2008-12-31 Thread David Spreadbury
John, Unless you have a backup of the book and associated files that are unchanged, then the MIF method may be the easiest way to go. ? If you had renamed the chapters from the book the cross-references would have been automatically recreated and it would have saved you all of this work. ? In the

RE: Book file > PDF problem

2008-12-11 Thread David Spreadbury
duced later than Frame 6.0? I have found a work around though - which is to print to file targetting a different printer (ie. not Adobe PDF) - and then running that file through distiller. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Spreadbury Sent:

Book file > PDF problem

2008-12-11 Thread David Spreadbury
k around though - which is to print to file targetting a different printer (ie. not Adobe PDF) - and then running that file through distiller. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Spreadbury Sent: 11

Re: Book file > PDF problem

2008-12-11 Thread David Spreadbury
Jo, In the Frame Print dialog, is Save Boos As have Single File selected? You may have the Separate File for Each Document selected.   I don't understand the links not working because they always hve for me when I have Separate Files selected. --- On Thu, 12/11/08, Jo Watkiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Book file > PDF problem

2008-12-11 Thread David Spreadbury
Jo, In the Frame Print dialog, is Save Boos As have Single File selected? You may have the Separate File for Each Document selected. ? I don't understand the links not working because they always hve for me when I have Separate Files selected. --- On Thu, 12/11/08, Jo Watkiss wrote: From: Jo W

Re: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-08 Thread David Spreadbury
Have you looked at Sourcerer, from Advantica, Inc?   Adobe has a Success Story at www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/pdfs/advantica_ss.pdf. --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Scott Prentice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Scott Prentice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Source Control for Frame To: "John Posa

Source Control for Frame

2008-12-08 Thread David Spreadbury
Have you looked at Sourcerer, from Advantica, Inc? ? Adobe has a Success Story at www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/pdfs/advantica_ss.pdf. --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Scott Prentice wrote: From: Scott Prentice Subject: Re: Source Control for Frame To: "John Posada" Cc: "Framers List" Date: Monday,

Re: Finding a font

2008-12-08 Thread David Spreadbury
Christopher, You could save the file as MIF and then search the MIF file for Times.   Once you find it, go back to the Frame file(s) and look for the format that is using it, probably on a master page, then fix, replace or delete, the format using the Times font. You could also edit the MIF to re

Finding a font

2008-12-08 Thread David Spreadbury
Christopher, You could save the file as MIF and then search the MIF file for Times. ? Once you find it, go back to the Frame file(s) and look for the format that is using it, probably on a master page, then fix, replace or delete, the format using the Times font. You could also edit the MIF to re

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread David Spreadbury
Klaus,   Like Rick, I was not aware of these issues. Very good information. Thanks for the heads-up on these issues. --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2 To: "Klaus Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread David Spreadbury
Klaus, ? Like Rick, I was not aware of these issues. Very good information. Thanks for the heads-up on these issues. --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Rick Quatro wrote: From: Rick Quatro Subject: Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2 To: "Klaus Mueller" , "Framers List" Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 12:

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread David Spreadbury
Les, You shouldn't encounter any problems working in an Unstructured (Standard) FM document while FrameMaker is set for Structured.   Obviously, you won't be able to use any of the Structured features while editing an Unstructured document, i.e., Structured View, Element Catalog won't display an

Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread David Spreadbury
Les, You shouldn't encounter any problems working in an Unstructured (Standard) FM document while FrameMaker is set for Structured. ? Obviously, you won't be able to use any of the Structured features while editing an Unstructured document, i.e., Structured View, Element Catalog won't display an

Re: FrameMaker -- removing heading rows in existing tables

2008-11-28 Thread David Spreadbury
Jim, One easy way would be to create a new Table Format, identical to the one with the colored heading row but without the heading row. Then apply this format to the table you don't want to have a heading. --- On Fri, 11/28/08, Jim Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Jim Owens <[EMAIL PROTEC

FrameMaker -- removing heading rows in existing tables

2008-11-28 Thread David Spreadbury
Jim, One easy way would be to create a new Table Format, identical to the one with the colored heading row but without?the heading row. Then apply this format to the table you don't want to have a heading. --- On Fri, 11/28/08, Jim Owens wrote: From: Jim Owens Subject: FrameMaker -- removing

Re: Globally Replace Tag Directories?

2008-11-26 Thread David Spreadbury
Allison, There is also Clean Import, a part of EZVars.   You can get it at http://www.electropubs.com/ez_ezvars.html. --- On Wed, 11/26/08, Art Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Art Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Globally Replace Tag Directories? To: "Nancy Allison" <[EMAIL PR

Globally Replace Tag Directories?

2008-11-26 Thread David Spreadbury
Allison, There is also Clean Import, a part of EZVars. ? You can get it at http://www.electropubs.com/ez_ezvars.html. --- On Wed, 11/26/08, Art Campbell wrote: From: Art Campbell Subject: Re: Globally Replace Tag Directories? To: "Nancy Allison" Cc: "Framers" Date: Wednesday, November 26, 20

Re: Carriage Return Symbol in Variable?

2008-11-13 Thread David Spreadbury
Denise, Should not be a problem. Try placing a backslash (\) before the character, i.e., \<. --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Denise Salles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Denise Salles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Carriage Return Symbol in Variable? To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Thursday, Novemb

Carriage Return Symbol in Variable?

2008-11-13 Thread David Spreadbury
Denise, Should not be a problem. Try placing a backslash (\) before the character, i.e., \<. --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Denise Salles wrote: From: Denise Salles Subject: Carriage Return Symbol in Variable? To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 7:37 PM Hi, May I as

Re: Regarding Internal Message

2008-10-02 Thread David Spreadbury
Just went through this yesterday.   We just ecently updated to SP3 and though that was the culprit. It could have been but I went through the chapter that was causing the problem, checking all graphics.   The writer had, without knowing, imported a graphic, by reference, and did not have the fra

Regarding Internal Message

2008-10-02 Thread David Spreadbury
Just went through this yesterday. ? We just ecently updated to SP3 and though that was the culprit. It could have been but I went through the chapter that was causing the problem, checking all graphics. ? The writer had, without knowing, imported a graphic, by reference, and did not have the fra

Total Page Count on Title Page

2008-09-15 Thread David Spreadbury
: dspreadb at yahoo.com, framers at lists.frameusers.com Date: Monday, September 15, 2008, 1:58 PM Hi David, ? Tried that ? it only reflects a page count for that individual file, not for the entire book. ? -Nicole ? From: David Spreadbury [mailto:dspre...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, September

Total Page Count on Title Page

2008-09-15 Thread David Spreadbury
Nicole, I haven't done it, but, according to the book, the Page Count variable (<$lastpagenum>), without the parens, should work. ? Try putting that in your footer, or wherever on the cover, and see what it gives you. ? You should be able to put it anywhere, except on a Master Page. --- On Mon,

Frame 8 and Text Edit Tracking

2008-09-12 Thread David Spreadbury
Using Frame 8, is possible, with the Text Edit Tracking feature, to collect statistics on the changes in a document?   >From the Frame 8 Reviewer's Guide it looks like this is possible. If you >compare version one of a document against version two, the updated version, of >the same document, Fra

Frame 8 and Text Edit Tracking

2008-09-12 Thread David Spreadbury
Using Frame 8, is possible, with the Text Edit Tracking feature, to collect statistics on the changes in a document? ? >From the Frame 8 Reviewer's Guide it looks like this is possible. If you >compare version one of a document against version two, the updated version,?of >the same document, Fra

Re: FM7 and OLE

2008-09-03 Thread David Spreadbury
We had the same problem, pasted text from Word going into an anchored frame, until we noticed the 'other' right-click paste option "Paste Special."   This option presents a new menu of what the Special represents. Select Text and it should work. --- On Sat, 8/30/08, Cal Callahan <[EMAIL PROTECTE

FM7 and OLE

2008-09-03 Thread David Spreadbury
We had the same problem, pasted text from Word going into an anchored frame, until we noticed the 'other' right-click paste option "Paste Special." ? This option presents a new menu of what the Special represents. Select Text and it should work. --- On Sat, 8/30/08, Cal Callahan wrote: From: C

Re: Missing font when printing

2008-09-03 Thread David Spreadbury
Sounds like your postscript printer doesn't know "Symbol."   Try downloading and installing the free SetPrint (http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm).   SetPrint allows you to configure two unique printers.   Set it up to use Adobe PDF while working in Frame and the physical pos

Missing font when printing

2008-09-03 Thread David Spreadbury
Sounds like your postscript printer doesn't know "Symbol." ? Try downloading and installing the free SetPrint (http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm). ? SetPrint allows you to configure two unique printers. ? Set it up to use Adobe PDF while working in Frame and the physical pos

Re: Frame 8 and WebWorks

2008-09-03 Thread David Spreadbury
One of the biggest problems with WebWorks is that if you upgrade your Frame you need to fork out the monies for an upgrade to WebWorks. Major pain when budgets are getting cut. --- On Wed, 9/3/08, Jim Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Jim Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Frame 8 and

Frame 8 and WebWorks

2008-09-03 Thread David Spreadbury
One of the biggest problems with WebWorks is that if you upgrade your Frame you need to fork out the monies for an upgrade to WebWorks. Major pain when budgets are getting cut. --- On Wed, 9/3/08, Jim Owens wrote: From: Jim Owens Subject: Re: Frame 8 and WebWorks To: "Kristy Nolan" Cc: frame

RE: Seeking effective doc compare solution for Vers A. vs. Vers D

2008-03-11 Thread David Spreadbury
Have you looked at creating PDFs of ver A and ver D. Then using Acrobat to do the compare? - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers

Seeking effective doc compare solution for Vers A. vs. Vers D

2008-03-11 Thread David Spreadbury
Have you looked at creating PDFs of ver A and ver D. Then using Acrobat to do the compare? - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

OT: Acrobat Displays Banner Off-Screen

2007-11-19 Thread David Spreadbury
Running into a wierd problem which seems to only appear on one or four systems. All four systems running Acrobat 8.1.1 on Windows XP SP2. PDFs are being created from FrameMaker 7.2 with Distiller 8. If I open a PDF on my system, the PDF displays fine. Banner page displays within the v

OT: Acrobat Displays Banner Off-Screen

2007-11-19 Thread David Spreadbury
Running into a wierd problem which seems to only appear on one or four systems. All four systems running Acrobat 8.1.1 on Windows XP SP2. PDFs are being created from FrameMaker 7.2 with Distiller 8. If I open a PDF on my system, the PDF displays fine. Banner page displays within the viewabl

re: Automatic creation of pdf files

2007-09-29 Thread David Spreadbury
What is wrong with using the Watched Folders feature of Acrobat Distiller. Install Distiller on the remote server and have it launch whenever the server is booted. Print your postscript files to the IN watched folder. Distiller will automatically place the PDF in the OUT watched folder.

Automatic creation of pdf files

2007-09-29 Thread David Spreadbury
What is wrong with using the Watched Folders feature of Acrobat Distiller. Install Distiller on the remote server and have it launch whenever the server is booted. Print your postscript files to the IN watched folder. Distiller will automatically place the PDF in the OUT watched folder.

batch processing of large numbers of text files?

2007-09-01 Thread David Spreadbury
One such option, for Windows users, is TextPad (www.textpad.com). Very useful when editing multiple ASCII files. I ue it to perform operations across a complete folder of HTML files on a regular basis. - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the

batch processing of large numbers of text files?

2007-09-01 Thread David Spreadbury
One such option, for Windows users, is TextPad (www.textpad.com). Very useful when editing multiple ASCII files. I ue it to perform operations across a complete folder of HTML files on a regular basis. - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in y

Acrobat 8/8.1 Dropping Text in PDF

2007-06-21 Thread David Spreadbury
We are running into a similar problem since upgrading to Acrobat 8 from Acrobat 7. We purchased the CS3 set, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat. When we create a Postscript file from FrameMaker 7.2p158, the PDF has random missing text. Sometimes complete pages, othertimes maybe a few

Acrobat 8/8.1 Dropping Text in PDF

2007-06-21 Thread David Spreadbury
We are running into a similar problem since upgrading to Acrobat 8 from Acrobat 7. We purchased the CS3 set, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat. When we create a Postscript file from FrameMaker 7.2p158, the PDF has random missing text. Sometimes complete pages, othertimes maybe a few words

Re: OT: Creating PDF and Bookmarks are Out of Sync - Solved

2007-06-10 Thread David Spreadbury
Thanks to Shlomo Perets and Mark Wickman for the solution. The problem was disconnected text frames on te master page. Connecting them fixed it. - Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today!

OT: Creating PDF and Bookmarks are Out of Sync - Solved

2007-06-10 Thread David Spreadbury
Thanks to Shlomo Perets and Mark Wickman for the solution. The problem was disconnected text frames on te master page. Connecting them fixed it. - Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today!

OT: Creating PDF and Bookmarks are Out of Sync

2007-06-08 Thread David Spreadbury
Attempting to create a PDF from an Unstructured Frame book. The first bookmarks for the first chapter come out correct. For the second, and successive chapters, the ChapterTitle bookmark appears after the Head1, Head2, etc., bookmarks. For example: Head1 Head2 Head1 ChapterTitle

OT: Creating PDF and Bookmarks are Out of Sync

2007-06-08 Thread David Spreadbury
Attempting to create a PDF from an Unstructured Frame book. The first bookmarks for the first chapter come out correct. For the second, and successive chapters, the ChapterTitle bookmark appears after the Head1, Head2, etc., bookmarks. For example: Head1 Head2 Head1 ChapterTitle Th

Cross-reference break after sorting Table - Frame 7.2

2007-06-04 Thread David Spreadbury
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 broken. There are 163 Unresolved cross-

Cross-reference break after sorting Table - Frame 7.2

2007-06-04 Thread David Spreadbury
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 broken. There are 163 Unresolved cross-ref

Acrobat 8, as part of CS3 Package

2007-05-08 Thread David Spreadbury
Well, the solution to my problem turned out to be a simple one. I erred in saying nothing changed on my system. Monday morning I finally received my registration number for the CS3 package. I activated my CS3. That's when the problems started. The source of the problem was a copy of t

Acrobat 8, as part of CS3 Package

2007-05-08 Thread David Spreadbury
Well, the solution to my problem turned out to be a simple one. I erred in saying nothing changed on my system. Monday morning I finally received my registration number for the CS3 package. I activated my CS3. That's when the problems started. The source of the problem was a copy of the eva

OT: Acrobat 8, as part of CS3 Package

2007-05-07 Thread David Spreadbury
Last week, as early as Friday, I was able to create PDFs from Frame using Acrobat 8 Distiller with no problems. PDFs came out as expected. Today I create PDFs and Acrobat drops text and cross-reference links at random. I have not made any changes to my system (Windows XP SP2, 2Gb RAM,

OT: Acrobat 8, as part of CS3 Package

2007-05-07 Thread David Spreadbury
Last week, as early as Friday, I was able to create PDFs from Frame using Acrobat 8 Distiller with no problems. PDFs came out as expected. Today I create PDFs and Acrobat drops text and cross-reference links at random. I have not made any changes to my system (Windows XP SP2, 2Gb RAM, Frame

Re: Fillable pdf forms and Framemaker documents

2006-12-28 Thread David Spreadbury
Rebecca, Art's approach works. I just tested this by inserting a PDF fillable form in a PDF created from FrameMaker. All of the fields of the inserted form are accessible, as if the form was standalone. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spa

Fillable pdf forms and Framemaker documents

2006-12-28 Thread David Spreadbury
Rebecca, Art's approach works. I just tested this by inserting a PDF fillable form in a PDF created from FrameMaker. All of the fields of the inserted form are accessible, as if the form was standalone. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Ya

Re: Consecutive Figure and Table Numbering

2006-12-24 Thread David Spreadbury
Many thanks to Steve Rickaby, Art Campbell, and Bruce Foster. It was a combination of responses that solved the problem. My numbering scheme was set as T:Table . Steve provided some old (2001) information on the proper formatting of Complex Book Numbering (Numbering in FrameMake

Consecutive Figure and Table Numbering

2006-12-24 Thread David Spreadbury
Many thanks to Steve Rickaby, Art Campbell, and Bruce Foster. It was a combination of responses that solved the problem. My numbering scheme was set as T:Table . Steve provided some old (2001) information on the proper formatting of Complex Book Numbering (Numbering in FrameMaker from Fa

Consecutive Figure and Table Numbering

2006-12-22 Thread David Spreadbury
I am trying to set up consecutive numbering for figures and tables across multiple chapters in a book. The structure and template uses a paragraph Tag with numbering set to . Each chapter restarts at #1. According to the Framemaker 7.0 Online Manual, "Autonumbered paragraphs are numbered consec

Consecutive Figure and Table Numbering

2006-12-22 Thread David Spreadbury
I am trying to set up consecutive numbering for figures and tables across multiple chapters in a book. The structure and template uses a paragraph Tag with numbering set to . Each chapter restarts at #1. According to the Framemaker 7.0 Online Manual, "Autonumbered paragraphs are numbered consec

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