Follow up on a few items

2013-07-07 Thread Fred Ridder
I really had a good time last evening and I just wanted to say thank you again for the thoughtful gifts. I just hope you weren't all bored to tears by the Doctor Who episode, which probably gave David Tennant the least screen time of any episode he did, and that I didn't oversell the episode as

RE: Follow up on a few items

2013-07-07 Thread Fred Ridder
My apologies for the noise posting. The web version of Outlook that is the standard client for Hotmail has been acting very flaky lately and changed the addressee list with no input from me. This was supposed to go to my friends Ellen and Paul, but Outlook changed Pau's address to that of the

RE: Cleaning Character Formats

2013-07-09 Thread Fred Ridder
it is completely ignored (as it should be), but why select it if it's irrelevant? -Fred Ridder Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:15:10 -0700 Subject: Cleaning Character Formats From: karendes...@gmail.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com I want to remove rogue character formats and replace them with correct ones

RE: Cleaning Character Formats

2013-07-09 Thread Fred Ridder
in the name of a 6-letter tag would take 64 (2^6) separate searches with consider case ON, but only one search with consider case OFF. -Fred Ridder Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 13:44:35 -0700 Subject: Re: Cleaning Character Formats From: karendes...@gmail.com To: docu...@hotmail.com CC: framers

RE: A query regarding $paranum

2013-07-12 Thread Fred Ridder
. -Fred Ridder From: rsh...@iafrica.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: A query regarding $paranum Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:42:11 +0200 Dear Framers: My paranum variable is not spitting out the entire string of autonumbers. I am following Fred Ridder's post, viz. In the LOF

RE: OT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: Adobe 'Creative Cloud' (again)

2013-07-18 Thread Fred Ridder
having to fork out a kilobuck or more up-front. -Fred Ridder Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:14:40 -0700 From: generic...@yahoo.ca Subject: Re: OT!!!: Adobe 'Creative Cloud' (again) To: m...@mattrsullivan.com; syed.hos...@aeris.net; framers@lists.frameusers.com And on the other

RE: Can't enter alpha character in text

2013-07-19 Thread Fred Ridder
The table that contains the ANSI 097 - lower-case alpha mapping is in the section titled Symbol and ZapfDingbats character sets and the lower-case alpha character and character name are in the column of the table headed Symbol set: graphic and name. What this tells you is that this character

RE: Can't enter alpha character in text

2013-07-19 Thread Fred Ridder
the Character palette (File Utilities Character Palette) You can use the File Utilities Hex Input commandYou can type it directly using the hex keypad mode described in the list last weekYou can copy the character from the Windows Character Map tool and paste it into the FrameMaker document. -Fred

RE: OT: Discount on XSL Course

2013-07-19 Thread Fred Ridder
That may be, but XSL makes my brain bone hurt, big time. Maybe I'll just beat my head against the wall for a while and save myself even more money. -Fred Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:40:18 -0700 From: s...@leximation.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: OT: Discount on XSL Course

RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Fred Ridder
It has also crashed for me on both of my attempts. But at least for me it crashed after less than 3 or 4 minutes. -Fred Ridder Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:17:43 +0100 To: wr...@tycoint.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com From: srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: Adobe Tech Comm

RE: Adobe Tech Comm Content Strategy and Tools Survey

2013-07-22 Thread Fred Ridder
The company information section was actually the part where the survey kept failing for me. I took it as a sign and deleted the message announcing the survey so that I wouldn't be tempted to waste any more time. -FR From: sha...@anthrobytes.com To: pchristen...@ftportfolios.com;

RE: TOC has incorrect page numbers

2013-07-24 Thread Fred Ridder
as the default printer for FrameMaker (assuming PDF is your final output). -Fred Ridder From: richard.co...@polycom.com To: david.mil...@drakesoftware.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:58:35 -0700 Subject: RE: TOC has incorrect page numbers David Millis wrote

RE: Adding structured files into a book yields the wrong order in the structure

2013-07-29 Thread Fred Ridder
as the order in which the user selects them. But I have no answer for the new elements being inserted in the wrong location relative to the insertion point because I have very little experience with structured mode. -Fred Ridder Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:57:49 + From: simon.b...@m-ais.com

RE: TCS subscription model: Illustrator version, and can you go back to buying TCS outright as an upgrade later?

2013-07-30 Thread Fred Ridder
? If you know someone with a crystal ball that is that good, you should be asking them for stock tips and not fretting pointlessly about license policies that haven't yet been formulated. -Fred Ridder Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:37:37 +1200 From: rebecca.offi...@alliedtelesis.co.nz To: framers

RE: Windows 7 + FrameMaker 11 = BOOM!

2013-08-09 Thread Fred Ridder
contention for memory resources even if it can only access 1/2 or 1/3 of the total memory available to the OS. -Fred Ridder Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 06:23:55 +1200 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com From: hele...@iinet.net.au Subject: RE: Windows 7 + FrameMaker 11 = BOOM! At 01:32 a.m. 10/08

RE: Chapter numbers

2013-08-10 Thread Fred Ridder
chapter file to be used independently (with the numbering properties that are set within the file itself), or to be used in any number of different book files, each with its own numbering setup. -Fred Ridder From: alastair.d...@imgtec.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Chapter

RE: Windows 7 + FrameMaker 11 = BOOM!

2013-08-13 Thread Fred Ridder
it is true that one of the most basic functions of an OS is memory management. I said nothing that disagrees with that. -Fred Ridder From: david.da...@invensys.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:29:32 -0500 Subject: RE: Windows 7 + FrameMaker 11 = BOOM! Fred, one

RE: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

2013-08-15 Thread Fred Ridder
and was gone when the file was restored to .fm format). -Fred Ridder From: pascale.stephen...@upu.int To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect? Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:17:25 + Hello I am using FrameMaker 9 on Windows 7. When I open a particular

RE: OT: Font suggestions for book?

2013-08-16 Thread Fred Ridder
of it depends answers similar to mine since there are some actual book designers on that list. But over here in the world of FrameMaker, I'm not sure that we have a lot of people who fancy themselves font fondlers. -Fred Ridder From: techs...@vibrantlivingministries.org To: Framers@Lists.FrameUsers.com

RE: Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?

2013-08-21 Thread Fred Ridder
of the glyph outlines from the font itself, so the graphics are totally dependent on each system's complement of installed fonts. -Fred Ridder From: da...@davidartman.com To: docu...@hotmail.com; pascale.stephen...@upu.int; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Unavailable fonts message

RE: Font substitution

2013-08-25 Thread Fred Ridder
the option once you are done fixing the specific set of files, because normally the remember behavior is very desirable. -Fred Ridder From: andrew.smit...@baesystems.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Font substitution Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:04:09 + Hi all I’m using Frame

RE: Blocking local formatting when copying

2013-08-25 Thread Fred Ridder
designate a shortcut key combination to do the format stripping and pasting with a single command (I use the Windows key that is next to the Crtl key along with V for plain text paste). -Fred Ridder From: alastair.d...@imgtec.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Blocking local

RE: 'as is' option for conditional text

2013-08-25 Thread Fred Ridder
) conditions applied to different subsets of the selected text. When you're applying a specific condition, it's important to know whether you are about to clobber some other, (presumably) carefully applied conditionalization. -Fred Ridder From: alastair.d...@imgtec.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com

RE: [f2a] RE: Hypertext links not working

2013-08-26 Thread Fred Ridder
directory structure. -Fred Ridder Subject: RE: [f2a] RE: Hypertext links not working Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:59:37 -0700 From: dave.st...@gdc4s.com To: gail.ber...@bergan.com CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com; frame2acro...@yahoogroups.com 2013-08-26-01T16:00Z Gail – Yes, I print the book all

RE: Updating TOC Wipes Formatting

2013-08-27 Thread Fred Ridder
when Update Book regenerates the TOC will have default formatting, and this may be what you are seeing. -Fred Ridder Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:43:30 -0700 Subject: Updating TOC Wipes Formatting From: karendes...@gmail.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Hi Framers, Why does updating a book

RE: Disappearing Palette Items

2013-08-29 Thread Fred Ridder
to be offset by a similar sized deletion. Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email

RE: Conditional formatting lost when pressing Enter?

2013-09-04 Thread Fred Ridder
-fully-conditionalized paragraph. Bummer. -Fred Ridder From: alastair.d...@imgtec.com To: jzun...@protranslating.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Conditional formatting lost when pressing Enter? Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:23:13 + Enter a 'dummy' character to the right of your

RE: Conditional formatting lost when pressing Enter?

2013-09-04 Thread Fred Ridder
really fix the problem. In fact, if the two paragraphs have different formatting, your workaround will actually *cause* problems because the unconditionalized paragraph will be formatted according to the pilcrow for the first conditional paragraph when you hide the condition. -Fred Ridder From

RE: Inserting inline graphics

2013-09-17 Thread Fred Ridder
be a very good idea for you to mention any restriction to how list members should reply (e.g. direct replies only because you're on digest, or on-list replies only due to email filtering) so that the rest of us don't waste too much time and energy. Cranky in New Jersey... -Fred Ridder From

RE: Word and Frame comparisons

2013-09-17 Thread Fred Ridder
style by pressing Ctrl+Spacebar. But if the document uses locally formatted Normal style, all you'll get by using these keystrokes is the equivalent of plain text. -Fred Ridder Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:04:25 -0500 From: t...@bstw.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Word and Frame

RE: FM 8: Autonumbers not auto-ing

2013-09-28 Thread Fred Ridder
some other chapter-level autonumbering, you will have to manually control the resetting of those numbering series in the autonumbering formats. -Fred Ridder From: techs...@vibrantlivingministries.org To: Framers@Lists.FrameUsers.com Subject: FM 8: Autonumbers not auto-ing Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013

RE: FM 8: Turn on hyperlinks in URLs

2013-09-29 Thread Fred Ridder
meaningless to the output device. And if the data is not in the PostScript, there's no way for the associated links to work in the PDF. So when you're generating a PostScript file specifically to distill into PDF, you need to tell FrameMaker to include the link data. -Fred Ridder From: techs

RE: FM 8: Xref markers keep breaking and re-breaking

2013-10-01 Thread Fred Ridder
delete the marker (or conditionalize it and set that condition to hide), the cross-reference will be broken and the referring document will report it as unresolved. -Fred Ridder From: techs...@vibrantlivingministries.org To: wr...@tycoint.com; Framers@Lists.FrameUsers.com Subject: RE: FM 8: Xref

RE: FM 8: Index marker syntax

2013-10-02 Thread Fred Ridder
consistent. But for the record, the last patch version of FM8 was p277, dating back to June 2007. See http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=22platform=Windows for each of the three FM8 updates (which have to be installed sequentially since none is cumulative) -Fred Ridder

RE: FM 8: Index marker syntax

2013-10-02 Thread Fred Ridder
Elchanan wrote: I have version 8.0p266, and no memory WRT FM8 indexing bugs. Then you only have the first of the three patches that were released for FM8. You are missing p273 (Feb 2008) and p277 (June 2008) -Fred Ridder

RE: FM 8: Index ... Another syntax question

2013-10-06 Thread Fred Ridder
itself. -Fred Ridder From: techs...@vibrantlivingministries.org To: Framers@Lists.FrameUsers.com Subject: FM 8: Index ... Another syntax question Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 05:19:43 -0700 Can anybody see a mistake here: EmphasisAmerican Crisis, Default Para Fontby Thomas Paine ? The result is supposed

RE: FM 8: In standard index, tabbing problem with page numbers

2013-10-06 Thread Fred Ridder
entries. And in that particular case I would still avoid the tab because I think that the wide separation between entries and page numbers would make the index much harder to read and use. -Fred Ridder From: techs...@vibrantlivingministries.org To: Framers@Lists.FrameUsers.com Subject: FM 8

RE: alphabetic $chapnum

2013-10-21 Thread Fred Ridder
, for example), you must also specify the value to use for the chapter where the format changes. But once you've done that, all chapters that are in the following continue string will both increment from that new value and use the new numbering format, whatever it happens to be. -Fred Ridder

RE: FM, How to Delete Unused Conditional Text Names from a Book

2013-10-22 Thread Fred Ridder
of all the conditions that exist in any of the component .fm files. Yes, I'm being picky about terminology, but conditional text is complicated enough (and misunderstood enough by many users) that there's no need to add more confusion. -Fred Ridder From: eligh...@commandalkon.com To: shmue

RE: Dictionaries

2013-10-22 Thread Fred Ridder
directory than where the newly installed FM11 expects to find them? -Fred Ridder From: w...@idtp.eu Subject: Dictionaries Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:46:25 +0200 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Hi, We noticed that installing FM11 overwrites user dictionaries that were created in FM9. I'd expect

RE: Dictionaries

2013-10-23 Thread Fred Ridder
Good to know, Mike. Thanks. So far I've only used one version that uses the new location, and since we only make limited use of user dictionaries in our FrameMaker docs I hadn't noticed the change. But now I know to watch out if/when I upgrade to a newer version. -Fred Ridder Date: Tue, 22

RE: Save all files in a FrameMaker book in a single MIF file?

2013-10-30 Thread Fred Ridder
What is the use case for doing this? -FR Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:25:11 +0100 Subject: Save all files in a FrameMaker book in a single MIF file? From: yves.barb...@gmail.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Hi group Is there a way (MIF2Go, Framescript, Extendscript) to save all files in a

RE: So Long and Thanks for the Fish -- Migrating from FrameMaker to Flare

2013-10-30 Thread Fred Ridder
of hundreds of separate pieces of software from dozens of different sources... -Fred Ridder Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:46:18 +0200 From: shmue...@gmail.com To: a...@alphabyte.co.nz; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: So Long and Thanks for the Fish -- Migrating from FrameMaker to Flare

RE: Character Tag As Is setting--isn't

2013-11-13 Thread Fred Ridder
for your table footnote. -Fred Ridder From: beverly_robin...@datacard.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:05:22 -0600 Subject: Character Tag As Is setting--isn't FrameMaker 10.0.2.419 on Windows 7 64-bit My template has a character tag, Hyperlink, that makes text blue

RE: Color in PDFs made from FM6

2013-12-20 Thread Fred Ridder
) Make sure the Generate Acrobat Data option in the Print dialog is selected. -Fred Ridder Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:33:26 -0700 Subject: Color in PDFs made from FM6 From: qatfr...@gmail.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Hello, I used to be a framers list member a long time ago. (You can tell

RE: Graphic distortion in frame pdf

2014-01-16 Thread Fred Ridder
been happy to use PDF as my primary graphics import format. It has been at least 95% reliable (a few PDFs have had font issues) and the onscreen image in FrameMaker is basically as good as in Acrobat. -Fred Ridder Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:05:04 -0600 From: i...@mikewickham.com To: framers

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
on Word documents that use the Office XML format. It won't *hurt* anything to do it, but it won't fix anything, either. -Fred Ridder Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:15:57 + To: syed.hos...@aeris.net; r...@rickquatro.com; craig...@hotmail.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com From: srick

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
: RE: End-of-flow wildcard? At 08:03 -0500 20/1/14, Fred Ridder wrote: But in the current XML-based Word file format (.docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm extensions used in Word 2007 and later) does not use the same embed formatting in the pilcrow technique. Instead, the single file you see

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Fred Ridder
of all sorts of Word-specific cruft and dealt with the way Frame imported every Word table with the custom ruling and shading flag set so that you wouldn't get the expected results when you applied a Frame table style. And it did it all in a single step. -Fred Ridder From: syed.hos

RE: OT: Adobe Acrobat Pro and Adobe Reader on same client

2014-01-21 Thread Fred Ridder
configuration includes Reader, and the last time my hard disk was replaced I forgot to have the IT tech remove Reader before installing Acrobat Pro. When I later removed Reader, it hosed the Acrobat installation and I had to do an uninstall/reinstall. -Fred Ridder From: tamm

RE: OT: Adobe Acrobat Pro and Adobe Reader on same client

2014-01-21 Thread Fred Ridder
: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:56 AM To: Tammy Van Boening; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: OT: Adobe Acrobat Pro and Adobe Reader on same client There's no other machine anywhere in your company where you can test the file? One of the issues

RE: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12

2014-01-23 Thread Fred Ridder
, repetitive page layouts. It can do page-by-page layouts, but not very flexibly and not very efficiently because that's not what it was designed for. -Fred Ridder From: urszulawither...@jetsetcom.net Subject: Re: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12

RE: Why is the Edit Frame button grayed out

2014-01-29 Thread Fred Ridder
A graphic and the frame that contains a graphic are separate entities with separate properties and separate sets of possible operations. A frame can be positioned relative to the page, in a fixed relation to an anchor in the text flow, or allowed to float relative to its anchor. A framed

RE: Saving a PDF so that it can be edited in Adobe Reader

2014-02-11 Thread Fred Ridder
don't know for sure because I'm still using X) require you to have the specific fonts used in the document installed on your system before allowing you to edit the text layer of the PDF. -Fred Ridder From: tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Saving a PDF

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-13 Thread Fred Ridder
looking than the Character Palette (if that is possible). -Fred Ridder From: rentagoodb...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:11:54 -0600 Subject: Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems To: feimin.lore...@onsemi.com CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com Fei Min

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-15 Thread Fred Ridder
. But as of FrameMaker 9, there is a tool that allows input of hexadecimal (Unicode) character numbers. Look at FileUtilitiesHex Input. Not as convenient as the Alt-key, but it works. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-15 Thread Fred Ridder
Windows shortcuts: For ™: Alt+0153 For®: Alt+0173 For ©: Al+0169 Note that for each of these you hold down the Alt key while typing the 4-digit code on the *numeric keypad* (with NumLock on, of course). -Fred Ridder From: mtedsteinb...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:20:06 -0600 Subject: Re

RE: Having problems with importing an EPS file into FrameMaker ...

2014-03-06 Thread Fred Ridder
get a gray rectangle on screen. But a better option for import (in my experience...) is PDF, which displays beautifully and prints as well as you would expect. -Fred Ridder Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:46:06 -0500 Subject: Re: Having problems with importing an EPS file into FrameMaker ... From

RE: Blank pages

2014-03-12 Thread Fred Ridder
a specific non-default master page applied is *not empty* because it contains a master page specification as a property. Manually placed frames can also cause problems even if they are empty of any content because they still exist as objects on the page. -Fred Ridder From: craig...@hotmail.com

RE: TOC Failure

2014-03-13 Thread Fred Ridder
as the previous TOC was (as long as nobody trashed the file for the previous TOC). -Fred Ridder From: alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: TOC Failure Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:20:09 + I received a request for help from my counterparts at a sister company

RE: HTML Mapping Table

2014-04-11 Thread Fred Ridder
for about 10 *seconds* of our time. -Fred Ridder From: craig...@hotmail.com To: jeff.coatswo...@jonasclub.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: HTML Mapping Table Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:34:14 -0500 You can delete them. There are multiple HTML pages and you have to delete them one

RE: Microsoft Word to FM 11 footnote conversion woes

2014-04-21 Thread Fred Ridder
formatting or a cross-reference--but it will find numbers and not letters or punctuation, so maybe it will work well enough for you. -Fred Ridder From: rsh...@iafrica.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Microsoft Word to FM 11 footnote conversion woes Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:07:49

RE: Using a backslash (\) in Hypertext marker

2014-05-05 Thread Fred Ridder
markers expect Unix-style pathnames, not Windows-style. And since drive letter mappings are local to each machine in the Windows world, there's the potential that these drive letters could be mapped differently on other users' systems, which would break the links. -Fred Ridder From: pchristen

RE: Spot cross-reference?

2014-05-09 Thread Fred Ridder
They have never worked in unstructured FrameMaker. I always considered that a flaw in the basic design of the product, but it's just the way was is. -Fred Ridder From: sobr...@innovmetric.com To: r...@rickquatro.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Spot cross-reference? Date: Fri, 9

RE: Keyboard Shortcut to Run ExtendScript in FrameMaker 10?

2014-05-29 Thread Fred Ridder
glyphs for these two characters that are completely indistinguishable unless they are immediately adjacent, so I thought clarification might be useful for other readers. -Fred Ridder From: r...@rickquatro.com To: feimin.lore...@onsemi.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Keyboard

RE: Import by reference question: Word conversion to FM11

2014-06-05 Thread Fred Ridder
if you have a real zip tool like WinZip rather than using Windows' own zip feature. Just choose All files (*.*) in the WinZip Open dialog, and you can open the .docx archive directly. -Fred Ridder Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 13:15:08 -0600 To: rob...@lauriston.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Moderating framers WAS: FrameMaker graphics question

2014-06-05 Thread Fred Ridder
that there is no content there that is newer than July 2011 (FrameMaker 10 still being referred to as new), so it appears that FrameMaker and frameusers.com are not very high on Brad's priority list these days. -Fred Ridder Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 09:30:59 +1200 From: a...@alphabyte.co.nz

RE: Word Tables to Frame 12Tables

2014-06-18 Thread Fred Ridder
equivalent functionality (straddle) works *completely* differently under the hood, and the import operation won't correctly figure out how to reconcile the two. -Fred Ridder From: hwinb...@hobartsystems.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Word Tables to Frame 12Tables Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014

RE: Word Tables to Frame 12Tables

2014-06-18 Thread Fred Ridder
. In my experience it is quicker to apply clean formatting to the cells of one table that was built from pasted plain text than to fix all the Word-ness of a table that was pulled in as a table even if you have a tool that does most of the work. -Fred Ridder Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:02:42 -0400

RE: Word Tables to Frame 12Tables

2014-06-18 Thread Fred Ridder
| analogicultrasound.com T 604-279-8550 ext 127 | F 604-279-8559 From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:26 AM To: Lin Sims; Robert Lauriston Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Word

RE: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

2014-07-07 Thread Fred Ridder
it with itself, on the other hand, is a valid operation because the found mark has a full complement of paragraph properties. -Fred Ridder From: fr...@daube.ch To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:48:17 +0200 Subject: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl) Friends

RE: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

2014-07-07 Thread Fred Ridder
...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 8:02 AM To: fr...@daube.ch; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl) No, I don't think it is a bug. And end-of-paragraph mark is not a simple glyph; it has properties and attributes

RE: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

2014-07-07 Thread Fred Ridder
by default. Of course, as you note, this could cause a mess with documents whose paragraphs have already been changed to some other paragraph format, etc. Z From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com

RE: Quoted speech

2014-07-30 Thread Fred Ridder
I have to ask: Why are you changing curled apostrophes to straight? And even more intriguing, what are straight (or non-curled) parentheses? Square brackets? Vertical rules (aka pipe characters)? -FR Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:11:20 -0500 From: t...@bstw.com To: ljsims...@gmail.com

RE: Quoted speech

2014-08-01 Thread Fred Ridder
significant misunderstanding except in the case of computer code. But substituting one type of bracket/brace for another is usually a bad idea because these different symbols are semantically different, particularly in technical and mathematical contexts. -Fred Ridder Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 09:53

RE: More about characters

2014-08-04 Thread Fred Ridder
\u0041 in the Find/Change dialog box. The same technique works in most FM-specific dialog boxes (but not necessarily in ones that access Windows OS services). -Fred Ridder Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 10:22:37 -0500 From: t...@bstw.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: More about characters

RE: Copy Special for a Table Tag

2014-08-13 Thread Fred Ridder
thing for the paragraph tags that are remembered for the heading row, and the first row and column of the body; these are only the defaults that will be applied to a new table. -Fred Ridder Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:46:29 -0400 Subject: Re: Copy Special for a Table Tag From: ljsims...@gmail.com

RE: Character format that won't stick

2014-08-26 Thread Fred Ridder
the fact. That way, when the x-ref is updated, it will reapply the character format you want, regardless of any formatting applied directly to the result of the x-ref that appears in the document. -Fred Ridder From: thomas.scal...@crossmatch.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Character

RE: Best practices for converting FM to Robohelp

2014-09-05 Thread Fred Ridder
FrameMaker installation I use. -Fred Ridder From: jeff.coatswo...@jonasclub.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Best practices for converting FM to Robohelp Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:13:04 + Yes, I could do that too, but then I’d have to run it in reverse if FM ran

RE: Finding styles with a space after the name

2014-09-24 Thread Fred Ridder
characteristics. And be aware that apparently unused style definitions can be used in some obscure places, like the formatting for the first-row cells that is contained in some table format definition. -Fred Ridder From: li...@techcomplus.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Finding styles

RE: Frame 12.0.3 update: fails to import paragraph style

2014-09-30 Thread Fred Ridder
to the Default ¶ format. -Fred Ridder Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:09:18 -0500 From: t...@bstw.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Frame 12.0.3 update: fails to import paragraph style Importing revised paragraph format to other files in book: Although the ending file shows the correct

RE: What free Windows text editor should I use to look at MIF files?

2014-10-05 Thread Fred Ridder
rather than by design. -Fred Ridder From: shmue...@gmail.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: What free Windows text editor should I use to look at MIF files? MIF is based on XML, so select XML highlighting in the text editor. I just tried it in SciTE and it looks good after

RE: What free Windows text editor should I use to look at MIF files?

2014-10-05 Thread Fred Ridder
Format that is used in FrameMaker other than the same acronym. MIF ≠ MIF in this case. And as I said, the highlighting you see may be useful, but it is an accidental artifact of MIF's use of angle brackets as delimiters. -Fred Ridder Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 18:50:57 +0300 From: shmue...@gmail.com

RE: What free Windows text editor should I use to look at MIF files?

2014-10-06 Thread Fred Ridder
in FrameMaker other than the same acronym. MIF ≠ MIF in this case. And as I said, the highlighting you see may be useful, but it is an accidental artifact of MIF's use of angle brackets as delimiters. -Fred Ridder Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 18:50:57 +0300 From: shmue...@gmail.com To: docu

RE: What free Windows text editor should I use to look at MIF files?

2014-10-06 Thread Fred Ridder
...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk Subject: RE: What free Windows text editor should I use to look at MIF files? At 10:11 -0400 6/10/14, Fred Ridder wrote: Sorry, Craig, but there's nothing to suggest that MIF has any basis in SGML, either. Just goes to show how pioneering the original product was. Afair, its

RE: FrameMaker: mysterious font substitution in PDF

2014-10-24 Thread Fred Ridder
I'm glad someone else had a clearer recollection than I did of the PostScript Helvetica problem. I remember having to follow our corporate help desk's recommendation to uninstall the PostScript version of Helvetica to fix some issue that I don't remember the details of, but that I seem to

RE: FrameMaker: mysterious font substitution in PDF

2014-10-24 Thread Fred Ridder
bundles ranges between 14% for small bundles to 31% for the Helvetica Full Family bundle. And then there are the loss-leader bundles like the Type Basics package, which would cost over $2000 at the full individual prices. -Fred Ridder From: syed.hos...@aeris.net To: rob...@lauriston.com

RE: Consistent Conditional Text

2014-11-10 Thread Fred Ridder
of the IP, and the new pilcrow will have the condition applied to it. -Fred Ridder From: da...@davidartman.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Consistent Conditional Text Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:16:58 -0700 Yes, you must always turn on View Text Symbols when you are performing

RE: Problem with playing video clips in FM 12 document viewed in Adobe Reader 11

2014-11-18 Thread Fred Ridder
count on it. -Fred Ridder From: jeff.coatswo...@jonasclub.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Problem with playing video clips in FM 12 document viewed in Adobe Reader 11 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:22:31 + The standalone instance of FM has been known to not be very

RE: Persist a variable to the next file

2014-12-09 Thread Fred Ridder
variable in the header or footer layout. -Fred Ridder Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:21:07 -0500 Subject: Re: Persist a variable to the next file From: ljsims...@gmail.com To: john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com OK, that was about what I thought. The short answer is, you can't

RE: Text Inset vs. Variable Question (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-12-10 Thread Fred Ridder
to 225 discrete insets) to 20 (up to 400) choices. -Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send

RE: why view on phone WAS: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped

2014-12-16 Thread Fred Ridder
I'm curious about one thing (well, more than just one; but one thing in the current context...): Has Adobe ever actually said that they use FrameMaker produce the FrameMaker documentation? I know that Microsoft has never made any such statement about the MS Word documentation, and for years

RE: Setup has detected . . .

2015-01-02 Thread Fred Ridder
that may or may not have been patched because version 9 is now two versions out of date. -Fred Ridder Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 19:38:58 -0800 From: poshe...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Setup has detected . . . To: tom.beiswen...@emhartglass.com CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com Hey Tom, At this time, I

RE: Acrobat X: Manually sending a Shared Review

2015-01-26 Thread Fred Ridder
commands. Not ideal, but it works, particularly if you keep the master file up to date and in a shared location, and all the reviewers are good about grabbing the latest copy of the master file before starting to add their own comments. -Fred Ridder Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:50:17 +0100 From: i

RE: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Fred Ridder
unless you've changed *something*, the current saved version and the backup can *never* be identical.) So rolling back to the automatic backup will actually lose you the last set of changes that were in your last save. -Fred Ridder

RE: FM12: PDF file size exploding

2015-02-17 Thread Fred Ridder
documents are going to be posted on a website where a significant number of users do not have anything resembling broadband access, spending more than a few seconds worrying about 10 MB in file size does not yield a good return on investment. -Fred Ridder Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:26:35 -0500 Subject

RE: FM12: PDF file size exploding

2015-02-17 Thread Fred Ridder
setting up a shared review by storing the shared review PDF on the cloud drive and sending a link instead, but until I do, I know this works. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Fred Ridder docu...@hotmail.com wrote: Not to minimize your question, but... With the cost of computer storage running

RE: FM12: PDF file size exploding

2015-02-17 Thread Fred Ridder
, of course. I wasn't jumping on you--it's a legitimate point. I was supplying information that I (stupidly) left out before. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Fred Ridder docu...@hotmail.com wrote: Fair enough. But I think it was worthwhile to point out that there are legitimate reasons for many

RE: limiting adjectives vs possessive adjectives

2015-03-16 Thread Fred Ridder
Yes, there are restrictive [and non-restrictive] adjectives, which is what I assume you are referring to as limiting adjectives (a term I failed to find in any of my handy grammar/linguistics references). But I don't think that's what we are dealing with here in the non-possessive case,

RE: How do you type a dash em in FM12

2015-02-24 Thread Fred Ridder
shortcut if you really want to. -Fred Ridder To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: How do you type a dash em in FM12 From: tom.beiswen...@emhartglass.com Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:09:24 -0500 In earlier versions of Word, when you typed 2 hyphens (--) it would automatically convert to a dash

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