RE: Password and restrict copying rights on pdf files generated fromFramemaker

2009-04-01 Thread Fred Ridder
r the same options. Sorry to say, that's not necessarily so. As Dov has pointed out a number of times, InDesign generates PDF internally, from its own PDF generation code, while FrameMaker uses the Adobe PDF printer driver and the Distiller. -Fred Ridder ___

RE: FrameScript - assign value to a FM variable

2009-04-02 Thread Fred Ridder
Font switch in a variable definition uses a forward slash rather than a backslash. -Fred Ridder ¶ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send

RE: Creating cross book links that work in a PDF file

2009-04-03 Thread Fred Ridder
PDF Setup dialog for both books. FrameMaker has no way of knowing what paragraphs in a given book might be referred to from an external book, so without selecting this option Frame might eliminate some named destinations that are needed for intr-book links. -Fred Ridder ___

RE: Conditional text in index markers

2009-04-08 Thread Fred Ridder
ensure that the conditionalized pair of variables always get inserted together and that neither of them ever gets deleted independent of the other. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-arc

RE: Conditional text in index markers

2009-04-08 Thread Fred Ridder
The advantage of this is that you would only have to worry about > setting up the proper conditional text show/hide rules at publishing time, > but the downside is that you must take some steps to ensure that the > conditionalized pair of variable

RE: searching for article in front of a variable

2009-04-10 Thread Fred Ridder
it is true that you probably would need to define *two* variables that include the indefinite article because you'll most lkely need both capped and lower-case variants. -Fred Ridder > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:29:28 + > From: jingtorra...@comcast.net > To: pe...@knowhowpr

RE: FM9: Moving from unstructured to structured view

2009-04-14 Thread Fred Ridder
After setting the Preferences item, you also have to close and re-open FrameMaker for the change to take effect. -Fred Ridder > Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:55:01 -0700 > From: generic...@yahoo.ca > Subject: Re: FM9: Moving from unstructured to structured view > To: framers@lists.fr

RE: Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

2009-04-22 Thread Fred Ridder
lf, which is a potential maintenance nightmare. But since *some* of the numbering needs to interact, it's likely that any ad hoc attempt to define some series labels will cause more problems than it fixes. In my experience, the *only* way to resolve the kind of situation Eva is facing is to

RE: FrameMaker Dialog Box

2009-04-24 Thread Fred Ridder
, each and every time the buffer is about to be cleared. But if you go to File>Preferences>General, you'll find options that allow you to reduce the frequency of the warnings to the first time per session or to turn them off altogether. -Fred Ridder __

RE: Compile Book_Wrong Font msg

2009-04-25 Thread Fred Ridder
rid of the bad font specicfication was a "wash via MIF" operation: -Save the FM file in MIF format -Close the original -Open the MIF version of the file -Do a Save As to overwrite the original FM file Give that a try if the "don't

RE: A stubborn table numbering ghost

2009-04-29 Thread Fred Ridder
y the numbers that were correct the last time that specific book was updated, but the cross-file, book-level update has to be invoked from the book file so that it will update the chapter files that are specific to that book. -Fred Ridder ___ You a

RE: OT: Technical illustrations - Outlining a line drawing

2009-05-06 Thread Fred Ridder
nevitably produced by the format's area-based image compression algorithm. JPEG is particularly ill-suited for line art or images containing text because it produces artifacts (a kind of gray smudginess) surrounding letters in text or alongside lin

RE: Table Footnotes

2009-05-06 Thread Fred Ridder
cells, and all notes will appear on each page if the table breaks across pages. -Fred Ridder > Subject: Table Footnotes > Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 13:17:48 -0500 > From: cmarti...@zebra.com > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > > I haven't used table footnotes in ages, but I ha

RE: Superscript character tag questions--Take 2

2009-05-11 Thread Fred Ridder
*never* need to use subscript, you can specify a negative offset value for the subscript definition to turn it into a second superscript with different percentages. -Fred Ridder > Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:49:29 -0500 > From: ma...@verizon.net > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com &

RE: Superscript character tag questions--Take 2

2009-05-11 Thread Fred Ridder
you're using Unicode font encoding, you can try code point 2122 (0x99), which is what works for Times New Roman. -Fred Ridder > Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 17:09:34 +0200 > Subject: Re: Superscript character tag questions--Take 2 > From: yves.barb...@gmail.com > To: ma...@verizon.

RE: Inventory of Template Features

2009-05-12 Thread Fred Ridder
older text frame on a master page, you've made it easier to find the information and made it much more impervious to accidental deletion or overwriting. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com

RE: 'Display Heading Text' in Book window displays first line of the text frame

2009-05-14 Thread Fred Ridder
the book, because in both cases each chapter file is scanned on a flow-by-flow basis. Keeping everything in one flow is really a good idea unless you simply can't achieve the desired page layout without some awkward kludge. -Fred Ridder > Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 20:38:14 +0300 > Sub

RE: FM to Acrobat conversion disaster

2009-05-18 Thread Fred Ridder
mum size limits, of course, but the page sizes range from very small (think of small postage stamps) to *very* large (think murals). -Fred Ridder > Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:27:42 +0300 > Subject: FM to Acrobat conversion disaster > From: dsch...@gmail.com > To: techsho...@yahoogr

RE: Setting the structure of the alphabatized list

2009-05-20 Thread Fred Ridder
The topic "Working with group titles in indexes" in the FrameMaker User Guide (accessible from the FrameMaker Help menu) should answer most of your questions. -Fred Ridder > Subject: Setting the structure of the alphabatized list > Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:47:43 -0

RE: Esc-m-p to wrap anchored frame

2009-05-20 Thread Fred Ridder
Richard Combs wrote: > Alternatively, IIRC, there's a plugin or script that will shrinkwrap > graphics without changing Anchoring Position. Sorry, I don't recall any > details -- someone on the list will know. See http://martinek.us/shrinkwrap.html for full info and download link. -FR

RE: Unresolved Cross Reference Warning Message

2009-05-20 Thread Fred Ridder
n. Even if the cross-references did not actually change as a result of the update operation, the fact that they were refreshed counts as a change that FrameMaker thinks you ought to save. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@m

RE: Keyboard Shortcut Problem

2009-05-21 Thread Fred Ridder
Joseph Lorenzini wrote: > I know framemaker 9 has been really buggy with keyboard shortcuts, but I > haven't seen anything about this issue. According to the FM 9 help system, > the keyboard shortcut to open the spell checker is: esc shift+f+i+s. I've > tried pressing the following on my keyboard

RE: TOC not what should be

2009-05-26 Thread Fred Ridder
Umm, maybe because the system variable is <$chapnum> (no "t") rather than <$chaptnum>? -Fred Ridder > From: poshe...@bellsouth.net > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: TOC not what should be > Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:59:46 + > > H

RE: TOC not what should be

2009-05-26 Thread Fred Ridder
OK, not a misspelled variable name... Did you do an Update Book after you added the <$chapnum> variable to the reference page in the TOC file? You've got to regenerate the TOC after you do anything that will change the content rather than just the formatting of the table. -

RE: New Topic: Sort by number

2009-05-27 Thread Fred Ridder
, Comment, etc) could also be used if you don't want to use Index markers, but it's also very easy to set up a user-defined marker type that has a name that makes the purpose evident to anyone using the doc. -Fred Ridder > From: Sue Curtzwiler (susa...@vmc.com) > Yes, I

RE: Difficulty Creating a TOC

2009-05-29 Thread Fred Ridder
totype paragraph and also set an appropriate tab in the corresponding paragraph format definition. -Fred Ridder > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:20:42 -0400 > Subject: Difficulty Creating a TOC > From: ecid...@zoominternet.net > CC: frame2acro...@yaho

RE: Difficulty Creating a TOC

2009-05-29 Thread Fred Ridder
e a script to post-process the TOC, but the only real solution is to change the source files, if that is possible. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.fram

RE: Default Anchored frame positioning

2009-06-03 Thread Fred Ridder
s folder of your FrameMaker installation, simply move it to another file to restore the standard shrinkwrap command. Of course, it's also possible that you actually *want* the 6 pt padding around each graphic, and in that case Art Campbell's suggestion to buy Bruce Foster's ImpGr

RE: Default Anchored frame positioning

2009-06-03 Thread Fred Ridder
7;52 > Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson > No disclaimers apply. > DoD 358 > > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: > > > > > > The easiest way to accomplish the is to use the standard "shrinkwrap" > &g

RE: Will two different versions of Distiller on the same machine cause problems?

2009-06-23 Thread Fred Ridder
Garnier asked: > I use Framemaker 7.0 and Distiller 5.0. We recently acquired Acrobat > Professional for generating editable pdfs. Do I need to follow any do’s and > don’ts for the installation? Will the two registry entries cause any > discrepancies? I have decided to install the Acrobat Prof

RE: Font Issues - Keeping Your File Clean - More Recap

2009-06-23 Thread Fred Ridder
ameMaker document, the clipboard is not involved and the paste results will always be formatted text unless you explicitly choose plain text via Paste Special or an accessory tool like PureText or HovText. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscr

RE: Creating an FM9 Style to Apply Forced Page Breaks

2009-06-23 Thread Fred Ridder
to some obviously decorative face (e.g. Cooper Black or some script face) in 14 pt red. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe s

RE: Creating an FM9 Style to Apply Forced Page Breaks

2009-06-23 Thread Fred Ridder
You just have to edit the TOC setup to include both the regular and the "break-before" versions of each heading. In other words, both H1 and H1_break, both H2 and H2_break, etc. Works like a champ. -Fred Ridder > From: alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com > To: generic...@y

RE: Creating an FM9 Style to Apply Forced Page Breaks

2009-06-23 Thread Fred Ridder
But note that the alternate approach of a "break-after" paragraph (i.e. one with 999 pts of space after) doesn't require any change to the TOC setup at all. Which is one reason why I personally prefer that approach. -Fred Ridder > From: docu...@hotmail.c

Typing conditional text

2009-06-25 Thread Fred Ridder
obe Knowledgebase. Does anyone have a workaround? Does FrameMaker 9 behave the same way (not that I'd be able to recommend having to spend money to upgrade the dozen or so developers to the new version...)? Fred Ridder ___ You are curr

RE: Use of "please" in technical documentation and messages on screen

2009-06-26 Thread Fred Ridder
is occurring. -Fred Ridder > From: i...@mikewickham.com > To: verner.ander...@radiometer.dk; framers@lists.FrameUsers.com > Subject: Re: Use of "please" in technical documentation and messages on screen > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:24:19 -0500 > > I don't

RE: Use of "please" in technical documentation and messages on screen

2009-06-26 Thread Fred Ridder
act. All that really matters to the user is that the process is occurring. -Fred Ridder > From: i...@mikewickham.com > To: verner.ander...@radiometer.dk; framers@lists.FrameUsers.com > Subject: Re: Use of "please" in technical documentation and messages on screen > Dat

RE: Creating an FM9 Style to Apply Forced Page Breaks

2009-06-26 Thread Fred Ridder
I fail to see how futzing with manual page breaks (the subject of the thread and of Matt's reply, which was basically advising not to worry about those "last 5%" details) has any bearing on the TOC setup, and particularly on whether section numbers appear in the TOC. If you set up the section

RE: FM 7.2 error message: Nothing to copy

2009-06-28 Thread Fred Ridder
If you are annoyed by a message you get when you double-click on the scroll up arrow button, my best advise is to stop double-clicking on the scroll up arrow button. I have been using Framemaker for a dozen years and I am not aware of any documented function that uses that user input. What is i

RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Fred Ridder
on the local system. Fonts have to be accessible to the Distiller (located on local or network drives in locations that are set up in the Distiller Font Locations configuration) for the Adobe PDF printer to be able to use them. -Fred Ridder > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:17:44 -0400 > From

RE: Strange orphan behavior in tables

2009-06-29 Thread Fred Ridder
ot;. This allows the table to float downward, away from the paragraph that holds its anchor, to the top of the next column or page, and for the paragraphs that follows the anchor paragraph in the text flow to float upwards to fill the space. Personally, I hate the Float feature, but that's just

RE: Unstructured FrameMaker: Metadata

2009-07-02 Thread Fred Ridder
Let's see... 7 File Info fields User variables User-defined markers Conditional text Reference pages Placeholder text frames on master pages Enough? -Fred Ridder > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:51:35 -0400 > Subject: Unstructured FrameM

RE: Numbering

2009-07-03 Thread Fred Ridder
Try building a new book. It sounds to me like that's where the problem resides. But you've been focusing all your attention on the chapter file. -FR > Subject: RE: Numbering > Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:11:27 -0500 > From: kmcdan...@pavtech.com > To: srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com > CC: fram...

RE: Converting PDF to Word

2009-07-07 Thread Fred Ridder
slow that you'll think the computer has crashed; overnight conversions are not unheard of. The best results usually come from the use of Mif2Go, which does an excellent job of creating a Word version that very closely resembles the FrameMaker original. -Fred Ridder > Subject: Converting

RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0- issue still not resolved

2009-07-07 Thread Fred Ridder
license does cost money, but how much time (including that of Adobe and of list members who have tried to provide help) has been wasted already? -Fred Ridder > Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:27:41 +0530 > From: garnier_framescr...@yahoo.co.in > Subject: RE: Save As not working wit

RE: Automated way to import formats?

2009-07-14 Thread Fred Ridder
ill using FM5.5.6 (possible since you say you're still using the Solaris version), you're basically SOL unless you want to do some scripting. -Fred Ridder > From: billc...@sonic.net > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Automated way to import formats? > Date: Tue, 1

RE: AcroPro 9.0 & FM 7.2 - Do they behave well ?

2009-07-14 Thread Fred Ridder
int), you may not need to upgrade to Acrobat 9.0, but if you do you should not have any serious issues using it with FrameMaker, with the possible exception fo Save As PDF, which is not the optimum way to generate PDF in any case. -Fred Ridder > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:43:24 +0530 >

RE: AcroPro 9.0 & FM 7.2 - Do they behave well ?

2009-07-14 Thread Fred Ridder
I seldom (if ever) used that menu in Office apps, so if it went away I had no reason to miss it. -Fred Ridder Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:09:01 +0530 Subject: Re: AcroPro 9.0 & FM 7.2 - Do they behave well ? From: surb...@gmail.com To: docu...@hotmail.com CC: ankur.1...@gmail.com; fra

RE: FM 7.0 and Acrobat 9

2009-07-15 Thread Fred Ridder
scripted system which automatically produces a whole stack of PDFs using the Save As PDF function, and he has run into problems trying to use a four-release-old version of FrameMaker with the latest version of Acrobat. -Fred Ridder > Subject: FM 7.0 and Acrobat 9 > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 200

RE: What is the optimum way to generate PDF?

2009-07-15 Thread Fred Ridder
#x27;s thing on the files it finds waiting for it. One double-click on an icon (or one line in a batch file) to launch Distiller is not a heavy burden on the operator and certainly doesn't qualify as having to distill manually. -Fred Ridder ___

RE: FM 7.0 and Acrobat 9

2009-07-16 Thread Fred Ridder
idn't invest any effort in remembering it. Now I will. -Fred Ridder > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:18:07 +0300 > To: docu...@hotmail.com > From: shlo...@microtype.com > Subject: RE: FM 7.0 and Acrobat 9 > CC: fram...@frameusers.com > > Fred, > > You wrote: > >

RE: Index of Scripture References

2009-07-16 Thread Fred Ridder
Roger, The first thing to realize is that many published books have indexes that were compiled by a professional indexer, working from galleys and using a dedicated indexing software tool like CINDEX or SKY Index rather than one that is built from embedded index codes in the authoring tool.

RE: Frame x-refs that wrap and work fine do not work in PDF

2009-07-16 Thread Fred Ridder
address. -Fred Ridder > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:58:17 -0700 > From: ob...@me.com > To: shlomo.per...@microtype.com > Subject: Re: Frame x-refs that wrap and work fine do not work in PDF > CC: fram...@frameusers.com; frame2acro...@yahoogroups.com > > You refer belo

RE: Adding files to book results in reverse order

2009-07-23 Thread Fred Ridder
member which at them moment...) will still be at the wrong end of the list. But at least you only have to reorder one or two files instead of all of them. -Fred Ridder > From: dus...@wilcoxconsulting.net > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Adding files to book results in rever

RE: Import by Reference Question/Bug ?

2009-08-18 Thread Fred Ridder
rather than FrameMaker itself having become corrupted. -Fred Ridder > From: dspre...@yahoo.com > To: rmelan...@spirecorp.com; richard.co...@polycom.com; > framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Import by Reference Question/Bug ? > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:22:38 -0500 > &

RE: Import by Reference Question/Bug ?

2009-08-18 Thread Fred Ridder
trial version to produce real deliverables. The utility functions work fine. Manual washing is only a few simple steps (saving as MIF, then opening the MIF and saving as .fm), but when you have Wash via MIF in the menu you get really lazy... -Fred Ridder > Subject: RE: Import by Refere

RE: Import by Reference Question/Bug ?

2009-08-18 Thread Fred Ridder
t the content of the reluctant file into a clean, working template file. -Fred Ridder > Subject: RE: Import by Reference Question/Bug ? > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:44:42 -0400 > From: rmelan...@spirecorp.com > To: rmelan...@spirecorp.com; art.campb...@gmail.com; kmcdan...@pav

RE: Import by Reference Question/Bug ?

2009-08-19 Thread Fred Ridder
ape, lower-case O, and capital H pressed *in sequence* rather than in combination). BTW, you can find many postings about heroic open in the FrameUsers archive by using the Google query string "heroic open" site:frameusers.com (where the quotes *are* part of the quety string) -Fred Rid

RE: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

2009-09-08 Thread Fred Ridder
What is your objection to building two books? That's the way FrameMaker is designed to work. If it weren't for the ability to build different books from differing collections of chapters is the primary reason for the extra comlication of the chapter/book paradigm. -Fred Ridder

RE: can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

2009-09-08 Thread Fred Ridder
files (TOC, LOF, LOT, Index) for each variant just to make the publishing process more foolproof. -Fred Ridder > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:55:22 -0400 > From: jdela...@comcast.net > To: docu...@hotmail.com > CC: u...@thrane.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: can a

RE: PS vs Save as PDF

2009-09-11 Thread Fred Ridder
he version of Distiller that is bundled with FrameMaker. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-uns

RE: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-27 Thread Fred Ridder
ed to lock a file while they are working on it. Most of us use the SyncroSVN client, which does not display locks by default--you have to direct the client to check for locks before you start to edit, and not everybody remembers to do this every time. -Fred Ridder > Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009

RE: Frame Postscript Output Problem

2009-10-01 Thread Fred Ridder
PDF directly by printing to the Adobe PDF virtual printer. -Fred Ridder > From: art.campb...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:29:22 -0400 > Subject: Re: Frame Postscript Output Problem > To: swh...@alamark.com > CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com > > OK, > &g

RE: Framemaker installed under Administrator

2009-10-16 Thread Fred Ridder
entries in the profile of the installing individual (the admin in your situation) or in the standard Windows "All Users" profile. -Fred Ridder > Subject: Re: Framemaker installed under Administrator > From: swh...@alamark.com > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:10:27 -0500 > To: a..

RE: Find Apply

2009-10-22 Thread Fred Ridder
iable, it will appear in the default font plus the formatting for the character tag that you've applied via the variable definition. -Fred Ridder Replying to Avi, Roger Shuttleworth wrote: > To apply the character format: > 1. Create the format and apply it to a text range. > 2. Se

RE: FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs

2009-11-12 Thread Fred Ridder
Jim Pinkham wrote: > Orly, on the notebook point, please clarify. Did IT tell you the one > that you have cannot be upgraded beyond 2 GB? That may well be accurate. > However, there are notebooks currently in stores that have 6 GB of RAM. But it should also be noted that only 3GB of memory can

RE: Adobe update number vs patch number

2009-11-13 Thread Fred Ridder
numbers do not work well in filenames. -Fred Ridder > From: l...@astoria-pacific.com > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Adobe update number vs patch number > Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:51:33 -0800 > > That's good to know, Shlomo. Thank you. As a person involved i

RE: hyperlink problem - solved

2009-11-25 Thread Fred Ridder
from a book, I forget that step as often as I remember it, and I periodically have to purge my system of all the unneeded and unused PS files that I created in those "D'oh!!!" moments. But I agree that I have never observed the Separate Files

RE: hyperlink problem - solved

2009-11-25 Thread Fred Ridder
et FM6 to produce separate PDFs for the chapters in a book was to print to file and use an asterisk in place of a filename. As I recall, there was no way to get separate PDFs directly; you always had to print to PS, then distill. It was about as far as you can get from default behavi

RE: global header change?

2009-12-01 Thread Fred Ridder
And don't forget to look for the product name in figures, too. Find/Change (and EZVars, too, I assume) will only find the old name in text objects like paragraphs. -Fred Ridder > Subject: RE: global header change? > Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:23:51 -0700 > From: richard.co.

RE: Auto-numbering figures across files

2009-12-01 Thread Fred Ridder
ion, the space after the opening angle bracket indicates that the autonumber should not display the value of this particualr numbering digit and the "=0" resets the counter value to 0 so that the first figure caption will increment the value to 1.) -Fred Ridder > From: emho...@sof

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Ridder
If you define a table format with the Top and Bottom settings for Default Cell Margins set to 0 pts, the table will have no affect whatsoever on the line spacing that you define for your code listing paragraph style. Piece of cake. -Fred Ridder > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:08:37 + &

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Ridder
Oops. Right you are, Richard. My bad. But I could have sworn that my approach worked for me in the past. I must be getting early symptoms of what's-his-name's disease... -Fred Ridder > Subject: RE: Long code samples in shaded table > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:09:30 -0700 &g

RE: Missing registration marks

2009-12-05 Thread Fred Ridder
s. So that doesn't appear to be the problem. -Fred Ridder > From: art.campb...@gmail.com > Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:56:13 -0500 > Subject: Re: Missing registration marks > To: bra...@hp.com > CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com; i...@mikewickham.com > > I believe y

RE: Missing registration marks

2009-12-05 Thread Fred Ridder
e 1" larger in each dimension than the page size. According to Linda's last post, there should be plenty of room. She reported a page size of 5.827" by 8.268" being printed to letter-size paper, which is an oversize of 2.673" in width and 2.732" in height. So this doesn&

RE: Missing registration marks

2009-12-05 Thread Fred Ridder
Good one Linda. I forgot about that and nobody had mentioned it yet. I'll bet money that this was the cause of Linda Branam's problem. Registration marks and interactive features like hyperlinks are for mutually exclusive applications. -Fred Ridder > From: lin...@techcom

RE: Disappearing anchored frames: strange FrameMaker bug

2009-12-07 Thread Fred Ridder
ther. As a test, I'd try manually widening the text frame on the page where you want the graphic to float to. My guess is that the float will work in this case. Then try restoring that page to normal and widening a page farther on in the f

RE: Cannot import a .jpg

2009-12-07 Thread Fred Ridder
used to produce zip files (among other things). In data compression, no data is ever thrown away; it is just stored in a more efficient format. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers

RE: Import external file by reference

2009-12-08 Thread Fred Ridder
umber box and a slider bar for you to use to select the particular page you want to import. And I have to believe that one can programmatically step through the pages in an arbitray multi-page PDF via FrameScript or the FDK (although I have never looked into this in the sl

RE: TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Fred Ridder
e is *not* an official voice of Adobe when it comes to Acrobat (or FrameMaker, for that matter). -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send

RE: TCS2 Distiller license problem

2009-12-17 Thread Fred Ridder
y Ward who was responsible for the squirrely (and moosey) ones. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsub

RE: Free online version of Read Me First! A Style Guide for theComputer Industry, Third Edition (3rd Edition)

2009-12-24 Thread Fred Ridder
But note that the book available at GoogleBooks is the 2nd Edition (2003) of the book rather than the current 3rd Edition that the OP is seeking. -Fred Ridder > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:22:47 -0500 > From: jdela...@comcast.net > To: i...@mikewickham.com > Subject: Re: Free onlin

RE: vsd flow charts

2010-01-08 Thread Fred Ridder
P, PNG, GIF, or especially JPEG, which is lossy as well as rasterized). -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.c

RE: RoboHelp 6

2010-01-13 Thread Fred Ridder
need ongoing maintenance and upgrades. -Fred Ridder > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:32:46 -0800 > From: smod...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: RoboHelp 6 > To: will.h...@4techwriter.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com > > Hi Will, > > You're right. We don't have RH 7 o

RE: Mif2Go Help?

2010-01-14 Thread Fred Ridder
really* obscure place. It's definitely good riddance, though... -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameuse

RE: Possible Solution for Color Definition Cleanup

2010-01-14 Thread Fred Ridder
ing conditions and importing the content into a clean template. Maybe the "all overlaping conditions indicated in magenta" scheme used in older versions of FrameMaker wasn't so bad after all... -Fred Ridder

RE: Even/Odd Page Layout Issue

2010-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
ng the files in the book window and then right-clicking on the selection and choosing Pagination from the context menu. Doing this on a file by file basis is very tedious even for a simple book with only a few chapters, and there are way too many opportunities to miss one chapter or make a mi

RE: Even/Odd Page Layout Issue

2010-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
deleted just as if you had deleted the conditional text rather than hiding it. But all the caveats that have been mentioned about pages that are not truly empty (assigned master pages, empty graphic frames, etc.) still apply. -Fred Ridder _

RE: OFF-Topic: ripped paper image

2010-01-22 Thread Fred Ridder
> I'm using SnagIt for this. You can use the feature at the time you're doing > the capture or when you edit the image. > > It's in the Effects > Edge Effects menu, and one of the choices is Torn Edge. > From here you can select which edge (top, bottom, left, right), the "torn" > size, backg

RE: Difference Between Save As and Print to Adobe PDF

2010-01-29 Thread Fred Ridder
gt;From Print Setup, click the Properties button next to the box where you set >the Adobe PDF printer. Go to the Adobe PDF Settings tab and you will find a >list box for Adobe PDF Output Folder. -Fred Ridder __

RE: Unable to select, conditionalise, hide/show a variable in a text frame on left of master page

2010-02-01 Thread Fred Ridder
itionalized content on a master page is hidden, FrameMaker treats it as if it does not exist at all when performing an import page layout operation. This is by design so that you can have an all-inclusive template but be able to import only the elements that are relevant into another file by hidin

RE: Controlling line breaks in a cross reference

2010-02-04 Thread Fred Ridder
Appendix A of the FrameMaker User Guide contains a table of "escaped" keystroke combinations to allow you to type special characters in dialog boxes. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subsc

RE: Anchored Frame Problem

2010-02-08 Thread Fred Ridder
are you using? And how does the behavior you see vary from the behavior you desire? -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@l

RE: "below" building block in X-Refs

2010-02-11 Thread Fred Ridder
nificant value to your docs? At each of the last four companies I've worked for, the trend was to reduce or eliminate this kind of "geographic" cue. But maybe that would have been different if

RE: Converting Rows to Headers

2010-02-12 Thread Fred Ridder
take with me to the proverbial desert island would take me about a millisecond. -Fred Ridder > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:21:27 -0500 > From: generic...@yahoo.ca > To: yves.barb...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Converting Rows to Headers > CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com > &g

RE: Converting Rows to Headers

2010-02-12 Thread Fred Ridder
have come up with some very clever solutions to unusaul requirements. -Fred Ridder > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:41:07 -0800 > From: generic...@yahoo.ca > Subject: RE: Converting Rows to Headers > To: yves.barb...@gmail.com; docu...@hotmail.com > CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com &

RE: Page Numbering Problem

2010-02-18 Thread Fred Ridder
ould be all set after doing an Update Book. Note that you can set "Next Available for multiple files by selecting all files that will have the same properties in the book window, right-clicking on the selection, and choosing Pagination from the context menu. -Fred Ridder > Date: Thu, 18 Feb

RE: One problem down, one new one comes up

2010-02-23 Thread Fred Ridder
rid of it, you need to have a different page layout design for the TOC pages, either by adding custom master pages for the TOC to the standard template or by using a custom template for the TOC. -Fred Ridder __

RE: Opening book files without opening the book

2010-02-24 Thread Fred Ridder
file open, it would effectively preclude you from ever being able to use one chapter with common information (e.g. a list of standard references or a common glossary) from being used in more than one book, which is another benefit of the FrameMaker book paradigm. -Fred Ridder > Date: Wed,

RE: FM 8 - Can't Delete Color Definitions

2010-03-10 Thread Fred Ridder
Absolutely correct. Which is why a MIF wash works as an easy way to get rid of the color definitions. Now that you've got the MIF file(s), open *that* file from FrameMaker and then do a Save As to convert it back to FrameMaker binary format. -Fred Ridder > From: mbrad...@tech

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