Acrobat X: Possible to transfer comments between PDFs?
Hi all, We use Acrobat's shared reviews as part of our documentation process. Sometimes not all the comments get addressed before a document gets released, which means that I need that information for the next review session. Is there ANY way to transfer comments from a closed Shared Review PDF to the next/newer Shared Review PDF? I do NOT want to have to retype 190 comments! Regards, -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Acrobat X: Possible to transfer comments between PDFs?
Thank you all. We're still using FM10 and Acrobat Pro X. Both Art's and Craig's information was useful--I can import the comments from the old PDF into the new one, and it's a lot easier than I expected. As Monica notes, however, they're not necessarily in the right spots on the page, as things have changed between versions. Still, they're at least usually on the same page, so that's a good start. Maybe it'll be good enough. I'm going to experiment with trying to move some, although I suspect if it's not my comment the program won't let me. We'll see. Lin On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote: Look into how FM 12 handles importing PDF comments. I haven't used this yet, but my understanding is you can import the PDF comments into FM as conditional text. (The PDF must be a tagged PDF.) You could then change the condition on the item you want to save and then mass delete the rest via deleting the original condition and choosing Delete the text rather than Make the Text Unconditional. The devil is in the details, and the FM 11 version was flawed, but if you have FM 12 this might work for you. Craig -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Keyboard shortcut for closing pods
The problem with the suggestion of using two or three Escapes in a row is that it could well break all the OTHER keyboard shortcuts that use the Esc key. Also, if you are mis-entering a keyboard shortcut, pressing Esc a couple of times resets the sequence so you can start over again. I think Esc Pc is unused, though, at least as of FM 11. Lin On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Shmuel Wolfson shmue...@gmail.com wrote: I just submitted the feature request below to Adobe. I'm posting this to the Framers list to get some feedback from others in hopes that Adobe will actually do something about it. If you agree with my, please post a comment on the list or on Adobe's feedback for here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform ***BUG*** *Concise problem statement: No easy keyboard shortcut to minimize or close pods.* *... Expected results: It would be a great time saver if pressing the Escape key twice without pause would minimize the last used pod, and pressing the Escape key three times without pause would close the pod. This is for all the pods, Cross-Reference, Find/Change, etc. The other option would be just to make pressing the Escape key twice close the pod, which to me would be second best, but far better than the current situation which requires clicking on a small icon to minimize or close a pod.* -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Jeremy H. Griffith, 1942-2014
Oh, that sucks so much. I liked Jeremy, he was a good guy. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Alan Litchfield a...@alphabyte.co.nz wrote: Indeed yes. A stalwart of tlhe industry and supporter of the little guy. Jeremy saved my bacon on more than occasion. He will be truly missed and I wish his family and friends all the best at this difficult time. Regards Alan On 10 June 2014 3:03:33 PM NZST, rebecca officer rebecca.offi...@alliedtelesis.co.nz wrote: Hi everyone I was very sorry to see a recent post on the dita-users list saying that Jeremy has died. We've used Mif2Go extensively and found Jeremy incredibly helpful. The FM community won't be the same without him. Regards Rebecca cstall...@omsys.com [dita-users] dita-us...@yahoogroups.com 8/06/14 10:25 Jeremy Griffith, the creator of DITA2Go and Mif2Go, died on May 15 after a long illness. He will be missed very much. --Carolyn Stallard __._,_.___ -- Posted by: cstall...@omsys.com -- Reply via web post https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dita-users/conversations/messages/35135;_ylc=X3oDMTJyazl1dXY1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyNzQ0MjA5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNjAzMDM5MARtc2dJZAMzNTEzNQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNycGx5BHN0aW1lAzE0MDIxNzk5MzY-?act=replymessageNum=35135 •Reply to sender cstall...@omsys.com?subject=Re%3A%20Jeremy%20H%2E%20Griffith%2C%201942-2014 •Reply to group dita-us...@yahoogroups.com?subject=Re%3A%20Jeremy%20H%2E%20Griffith%2C%201942-2014 •Start a New Topic https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dita-users/conversations/newtopic;_ylc=X3oDMTJmb2Ztamo5BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyNzQ0MjA5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNjAzMDM5MARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0aW1lAzE0MDIxNzk5MzY- •Messages in this topic https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dita-users/conversations/topics/35135;_ylc=X3oDMTM3cGFzNHRkBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyNzQ0MjA5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNjAzMDM5MARtc2dJZAMzNTEzNQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzE0MDIxNzk5MzYEdHBjSWQDMzUxMzU- (1) Visit Your Group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dita-users/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmZm0zZzMwBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyNzQ0MjA5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNjAzMDM5MARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MDIxNzk5MzY- - New Members https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dita-users/members/all;_ylc=X3oDMTJnY2dlN3IzBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyNzQ0MjA5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNjAzMDM5MARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2bWJycwRzdGltZQMxNDAyMTc5OTM2 1 [image: Yahoo! Groups] https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJldGVoMnFlBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzEyNzQ0MjA5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNjAzMDM5MARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQwMjE3OTkzNg-- • Privacy https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html • Unsubscribe dita-users-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe • Terms of Use https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/ . __,_._,___ NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. -- You are currently subscribed to framers as a...@alphabyte.co.nz. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/alan%40alphabyte.co.nz Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Dr Alan Litchfield Alphabyte PO Box 1941 Auckland ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Word Tables to Frame 12Tables
And don't forget Rick Quattro's excellent TableCleaner plugin, which can help make cleaning up Word tables ever so much easier. On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Second on that approach. On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Fred Ridder docu...@hotmail.com wrote: Because the Word and FrameMaker table models are fundamentally so different, I find that it is best to only import the content and nothing relating to the tableness. From Word, first use the convert table to text command, then copy the tab-separated table contents. Paste the text into Frame and then use convert the table to text command to create a table with the appropriate table format applied. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Keyboard shortcut to move into next footnote text flow?
There is no keyboard shortcut to jump from one footnote flow to the next. Maybe an Extendscript could save you some keystrokes? On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Harding, Dan dhard...@illinois.edu wrote: My apologies if I’m using incorrect terminology. When I start a chapter via importing from Word, there’s a fair amount of cleanup work I have to do re: footnotes. If my cursor is in a footnote and I want to jump to the next footnote (not to the footnote’s position in the main text, but into the footnote text flow), is there a keyboard shortcut for doing so? I have been able to search for the next footnote paragraph tag, and while that works, (1) it’s multiple keystrokes, and more importantly (2) if the source document was tagged inconsistently, the search will fail, jumping to a subsequent footnote, meaning I still have to manually go through and fix the outliers. I can fix #1 via AutoHotKey. #2 is a sticky problem. If there is a shortcut, I’m unaware of it, and if there is a better object to search for than the paragraph tag, I’m also ignorant of that. I know that many people say to avoid importing from Word, but when you have chapters that have 200-400 footnotes and as many index markers, trust me, you do NOT want to have to manually redo all of those… Thanks in advance, -Dan P.S. FM12 (TCS5) on Windows Enterprise 64-bit, if it makes a difference. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Automating table column width changes
Use Rick Quattro's TableCleaner plugin. If the tables are consistently tagged and all of them have to be the same sizes, you can use its Resize All Table Columns function. It's a life saver. On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Fei Min Lorente feimin.lore...@onsemi.com wrote: I’m converting the style of my documentation set (about 100 manuals), and that means the column width of some single-cell tables ought to change. They have unique and consistent table styles (there’s 3 types of them), and they all have to be set to the same width. I’ve changed the table width in the template, but the widths don’t change when I import formats. Copying and pasting the column width is kind of tedious. Is my best bet an ExtendScript script? I’m using FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7. Fei Min Lorente Senior Technical Communicator Medical and Wireless Division feimin.lore...@onsemi.com +1 519-884-9696 ext. 2297 | Waterloo office +1 519-831-4931 | mobile +1 905-631-5724 | fax www.onsemi.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Quoted speech
If it were me, I'd copy one of the Australian ones into the Find box, then copy the one you want it to be into the Replace box, then click Change All, making sure Book is selected. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Theresa de Valence t...@bstw.com wrote: I'm used to replacing smart quotes with straight quotes in documents I receive but I've just received a document from an Australian writer, so dialogue is indicated with single curved apostrophes: U+02BB Modifier letter turned comma U+02BC Modifier letter apostrophe How do I replace these with U+0027 in Frame? (I'm used to the ALT key sequences) Thanks, Theresa ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Quoted speech
I'm surprised. Frame's usually so good about finding those weird things. OK, this part I'm not sure will work, but according to the help.adobe.com website, you can search for Unicode characters using their UTF-8 hex code and \x. So for your first character, in the Find box, type '\xCABB' (without the quote characters. For your second character, type '\xCABC' (without the quote characters. (I got the UTF-8 hex codes from http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode). I don't have any files using those codes, so I can't test it. :( Let me know if it works so I can put it into my bag of tricks, too. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Theresa de Valence t...@bstw.com wrote: On 7/30/2014 11:58 AM, Lin Sims wrote: If it were me, I'd copy one of the Australian ones into the Find box, then copy the one you want it to be into the Replace box, then click Change All, making sure Book is selected. For me that doesn't quite work. There's something in Frame which decides a curved apostrophe is the same as an uncurved apostrophe. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Copy Special for a Table Tag
Are you trying to change all the tables in a document from one table tag to another table tag, or are you trying to update all the properties of a particular table tag? If the first, you can do it using the Global Update option. 1. Put your cursor inside the one of the tables 2. Open Table Designer 3. Select the new table tag from the drop-down list 4. From the Commands drop-down, select Global Update options 5. Select All Properties and All Tagged. Set All Tagged to the OLD table tag (the one you want to change FROM) 6. Click Update. Click OK to confirm that you want to change all the tables tagged with the OLD tag to the NEW tag. If the second, open the Table Designer, update the properties, and click Update All. All tables with the same tag will get the new properties. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote: Sounds like a job for an ExtendScript. Craig -- Subject: Copy Special for a Table Tag From: dixit.ponnuk...@tcs.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:49:39 +0530 Hi, Just wanted to know if there is a way to apply the table properties through the Copy Special option for a table tag in FrameMaker. Right now, I am handling a migration work where the existing content has to be transformed to a different template. For which, this option would be handy. Because if this is feasible, then I can use the Find/Replace - By Pasting option and I will be able to convert all the tables in one go as opposed to applying the table tag by individually selecting each table from the document. Please advise. Thanks Regards Dixit Ponnukasu =-=-= Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as craig...@hotmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/craigede%40hotmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Copy Special for a Table Tag
Oh, yes, and it's possible that Rick Quattro's TableCleaner plugin would be useful. It has a few commands to do with applying one cell's (or table's) properties across all the tables in a single document. Highly recommended! On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Are you trying to change all the tables in a document from one table tag to another table tag, or are you trying to update all the properties of a particular table tag? If the first, you can do it using the Global Update option. 1. Put your cursor inside the one of the tables 2. Open Table Designer 3. Select the new table tag from the drop-down list 4. From the Commands drop-down, select Global Update options 5. Select All Properties and All Tagged. Set All Tagged to the OLD table tag (the one you want to change FROM) 6. Click Update. Click OK to confirm that you want to change all the tables tagged with the OLD tag to the NEW tag. If the second, open the Table Designer, update the properties, and click Update All. All tables with the same tag will get the new properties. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote: Sounds like a job for an ExtendScript. Craig -- Subject: Copy Special for a Table Tag From: dixit.ponnuk...@tcs.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:49:39 +0530 Hi, Just wanted to know if there is a way to apply the table properties through the Copy Special option for a table tag in FrameMaker. Right now, I am handling a migration work where the existing content has to be transformed to a different template. For which, this option would be handy. Because if this is feasible, then I can use the Find/Replace - By Pasting option and I will be able to convert all the tables in one go as opposed to applying the table tag by individually selecting each table from the document. Please advise. Thanks Regards Dixit Ponnukasu =-=-= Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as craig...@hotmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/craigede%40hotmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Copy Special for a Table Tag
Yep. Fred's right. Which is (one of the many reasons) why Rick's plugin is so damned handy. It'll update all the cell formats and you can alter all the table widths. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Fred Ridder docu...@hotmail.com wrote: But note that not all properties of a table format are applied to an existing table when you change it to a new format. Column widths, in particular, are not changed after the fact; the column widths that are part of a table format are only the defaults that are applied to a *new* table. Same 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 To: craig...@hotmail.com CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com; dixit.ponnuk...@tcs.com Are you trying to change all the tables in a document from one table tag to another table tag, or are you trying to update all the properties of a particular table tag? If the first, you can do it using the Global Update option. 1. Put your cursor inside the one of the tables 2. Open Table Designer 3. Select the new table tag from the drop-down list 4. From the Commands drop-down, select Global Update options 5. Select All Properties and All Tagged. Set All Tagged to the OLD table tag (the one you want to change FROM) 6. Click Update. Click OK to confirm that you want to change all the tables tagged with the OLD tag to the NEW tag. If the second, open the Table Designer, update the properties, and click Update All. All tables with the same tag will get the new properties. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote: Sounds like a job for an ExtendScript. Craig -- Subject: Copy Special for a Table Tag From: dixit.ponnuk...@tcs.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:49:39 +0530 Hi, Just wanted to know if there is a way to apply the table properties through the Copy Special option for a table tag in FrameMaker. Right now, I am handling a migration work where the existing content has to be transformed to a different template. For which, this option would be handy. Because if this is feasible, then I can use the Find/Replace - By Pasting option and I will be able to convert all the tables in one go as opposed to applying the table tag by individually selecting each table from the document. Please advise. Thanks Regards Dixit Ponnukasu -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Mif2Go suddenly failing on all machines
And if you do find a fix, let us know, just in case someone else runs into the same issue. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com wrote: If you don't get anything here, you might try the new mif2go list .. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mif2go/info ...scott On 8/13/14 12:53 PM, John Sgammato wrote: Yesterday I was generating a bunch of XHTML output with Mif2Go, when suddenly I started to fail with this error: Mif2Go failed for file: C:\Project\Users_Roles.html type 1, code 2, at: Wed Aug 13 15:46:36 2014 Could not run DCL filter or other program. File not found. It had worked fine just an hour before. Nothing had changed. Nonetheless I rechecked all my environment variables and other common issues; they were all good. Restarting the machine did not fix it. A complete uninstall/reinstall of Mif2Go did not fix it. Today is does not work on two different computers with different files. Is anyone else experiencing this? It's as if my license has been revoked or some similar global denial of service. -- http://www.actifio.com/*John Sgammato, Documentation Architect* *e* john.sgamm...@actifio.com *c* 508.927.2083 *t* @actifiodocs http://twitter.com/actifiodocs 333 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451 http://twitter.com/actifio http://www.linkedin.com/company/399246 https://plus.google.com/102870897962348937868/posts http://www.youtube.com/user/actifiohttp://www.actifio.com/ *Radically simple copy data management * *.* ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as s...@leximation.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email toframers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sp10%40leximation.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visithttp://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Insets and Tables: container paragraphs with no additional spacing
I like to use my cursor keys to scroll from table to table, and putting each table anchor in its own paragraph lets me do that. If they're all on the same line, pressing the up or down arrow once pops you to the beginning or end of all of the tables that are anchored in the same line. I do a lot of documents with hundreds of tables that are one right after the other, so having an anchor anywhere but on its own line becomes a nuisance. Putting all the anchors in the same line also makes it much difficult to select just one table, since unless you are VERY disciplined about putting a space between them, FM drops the anchors on top of each other. And (again) if you have a lot of them, even using just a small space between can make the anchors wrap to another line (or three or four), which messes up your spacing all over again but for a different reason. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Stuart Rogers srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com wrote: On 2014-Oct-02 3:23 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: What is the benefit of putting a table anchor in its own paragraphs instead of putting the anchor at the end of the preceding paragraph? I've inherited lots of documents that do things like that and it seemed to me like pointless busywork, but the people who set up the templates were long gone so I couldn't ask for their rationale. On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Stuart Rogerssrog...@phoenix-geophysics.com srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com wrote: If you prefer to have your tables in dedicated paragraphs ... It gives you greater control over spacing and positioning, without having to override the preceding paragraph's tag settings. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Insets and Tables: container paragraphs with no additional spacing
I'm describing IC chip registers. There is absolutely no point in having text or a heading in between each one, and this particular piece of IP has about 500 or so of them. As always, it depends on what you're doing and who your audience is. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: I would never have one table follow another without a heading or explanatory text in between. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: I like to use my cursor keys to scroll from table to table, and putting each table anchor in its own paragraph lets me do that. If they're all on the same line, pressing the up or down arrow once pops you to the beginning or end of all of the tables that are anchored in the same line. I do a lot of documents with hundreds of tables that are one right after the other, so having an anchor anywhere but on its own line becomes a nuisance. Putting all the anchors in the same line also makes it much difficult to select just one table, since unless you are VERY disciplined about putting a space between them, FM drops the anchors on top of each other. And (again) if you have a lot of them, even using just a small space between can make the anchors wrap to another line (or three or four), which messes up your spacing all over again but for a different reason. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Stuart Rogers srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com wrote: On 2014-Oct-02 3:23 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: What is the benefit of putting a table anchor in its own paragraphs instead of putting the anchor at the end of the preceding paragraph? I've inherited lots of documents that do things like that and it seemed to me like pointless busywork, but the people who set up the templates were long gone so I couldn't ask for their rationale. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Insets and Tables: container paragraphs with no additional spacing
For the registers, we list all the table names as active links in a table upfront. But if I am simply scanning through the tables, I find it easier to use the cursor button than the mouse wheel. Your mileage may, of course, vary. There are also places where a brief paragraph introduces a set of tables. The data wouldn't work well combined into single table, and I'm not about to say, The following table describes X when I've already said it up above. It annoys my engineers and the customer engineers. If I were in a different environment producing docs for a different audience, I would very likely be introducing each table with some text. In this environment, with this highly technical audience, it is neither necessary nor wanted. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: How do users find the one they're looking for? On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: I'm describing IC chip registers. There is absolutely no point in having text or a heading in between each one, and this particular piece of IP has about 500 or so of them. As always, it depends on what you're doing and who your audience is. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: I would never have one table follow another without a heading or explanatory text in between. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: I like to use my cursor keys to scroll from table to table, and putting each table anchor in its own paragraph lets me do that. If they're all on the same line, pressing the up or down arrow once pops you to the beginning or end of all of the tables that are anchored in the same line. I do a lot of documents with hundreds of tables that are one right after the other, so having an anchor anywhere but on its own line becomes a nuisance. Putting all the anchors in the same line also makes it much difficult to select just one table, since unless you are VERY disciplined about putting a space between them, FM drops the anchors on top of each other. And (again) if you have a lot of them, even using just a small space between can make the anchors wrap to another line (or three or four), which messes up your spacing all over again but for a different reason. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Stuart Rogers srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com wrote: On 2014-Oct-02 3:23 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: What is the benefit of putting a table anchor in its own paragraphs instead of putting the anchor at the end of the preceding paragraph? I've inherited lots of documents that do things like that and it seemed to me like pointless busywork, but the people who set up the templates were long gone so I couldn't ask for their rationale. -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Insets and Tables: container paragraphs with no additional spacing
Not a bad idea, but this is the corporate style. We're also not single-sourcing. (We were moving to that, but then the company got acquired and the techcomm department was decentralized. But that's a whole other story.) Even if it were my call, I'm not sure I'd go that way. If the table splits across a page, you lose the title. And these tables can go on for a couple of pages, depending on the content.. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: In a situation like that, I use headings instead of table names. In a single-source environment, headings are more flexible. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: For the registers, we list all the table names as active links in a table upfront. But if I am simply scanning through the tables, I find it easier to use the cursor button than the mouse wheel. Your mileage may, of course, vary. There are also places where a brief paragraph introduces a set of tables. The data wouldn't work well combined into single table, and I'm not about to say, The following table describes X when I've already said it up above. It annoys my engineers and the customer engineers. If I were in a different environment producing docs for a different audience, I would very likely be introducing each table with some text. In this environment, with this highly technical audience, it is neither necessary nor wanted. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: How do users find the one they're looking for? On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: I'm describing IC chip registers. There is absolutely no point in having text or a heading in between each one, and this particular piece of IP has about 500 or so of them. As always, it depends on what you're doing and who your audience is. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: I would never have one table follow another without a heading or explanatory text in between. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: I like to use my cursor keys to scroll from table to table, and putting each table anchor in its own paragraph lets me do that. If they're all on the same line, pressing the up or down arrow once pops you to the beginning or end of all of the tables that are anchored in the same line. I do a lot of documents with hundreds of tables that are one right after the other, so having an anchor anywhere but on its own line becomes a nuisance. Putting all the anchors in the same line also makes it much difficult to select just one table, since unless you are VERY disciplined about putting a space between them, FM drops the anchors on top of each other. And (again) if you have a lot of them, even using just a small space between can make the anchors wrap to another line (or three or four), which messes up your spacing all over again but for a different reason. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Stuart Rogers srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com wrote: On 2014-Oct-02 3:23 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: What is the benefit of putting a table anchor in its own paragraphs instead of putting the anchor at the end of the preceding paragraph? I've inherited lots of documents that do things like that and it seemed to me like pointless busywork, but the people who set up the templates were long gone so I couldn't ask for their rationale. -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: . PDF query
My recollection may be faulty, but I seem to recall Dov Isaacs saying the issues with Save As PDF had been fixed a while ago. Now if they can just fix the broken Esc keyboard shortcuts. Lin On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Böðvar Björgvinsson bod...@gmail.com wrote: Since I started seriously learning FrameMaker (7.0) I have always been advised against using SaveAs PDF but instead print to file using whatever the name has been each version of the Adobe PostScript printer engine. Takes af few more clicks but saves a lot of trouble. Still do it several versions higher. Regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Davis, David david.da...@non.schneider-electric.com wrote: Dennis, You're not the first person to report this problem. I doubt you're doing anything wrong, it's just FrameMaker being buggy. I'd encourage you to report it at Adobe's bug report page https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform Message: 1 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:31:14 + From: Denis Daly d.d...@icpnewtech.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: PDF query Message-ID: e2684a3ed8374ac79e0450223f494...@am3pr01mb0646.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, My name is Denis Daly. I have recently started using FrameMaker. I have had an odd issue today. I saved an individual chapter as a PDF and about 40% of the images were not present. They are available in the 'Graphics' folder. I resaved and the same thing happened. I then saved a third time but selected RGB instead of CYMK; all images were present. I am using FM 12 with the recent update installed. Can anyone explain this behaviour, please? *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys Limited, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please select the Legal Entities link at invensys.com. Invensys Limited is owned by the Schneider-Electric Group. You may contact Invensys Limited on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail recept...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as bod...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/bodvar%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM9 Crashes when Creating PDFs with files that Contain PDFs (WAS: Frame 9 Crashing – Can’t Create PDFs)
Out of curiousity, Allison, why are you printing the Visio graphics to PDF and then importing them into a Frame file that is printed to PDF? Embedding a PDF file into a file that is going to be printed to PDF tends to drastically increase the size of the file being distilled. Given that your testing has pretty much narrowed down the issue to pages with embedded PDF images/graphics, I'd strongly suggest seeing if a different image format would do what you need. Is it necessary that they be PDF, or could another searchable format such as SVG (now that Adobe has fixed the SVG to PDF but) be used instead? On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Mike Wickham i...@mikewickham.com wrote: I thought I recalled Dov Isaacs explaining this as a Windows problem, rather than a FrameMaker problem. I found the following quote from him online, which appears to reference what was later called the fntcache.dat bug (and fixed with a hotfix and, later, Windows update), and a Windows bug relating to large page sizes and large fonts. I don't know if that one was ever fixed and may still require setting a lower dpi as a workaround. (I would note that I have no text or image dropout at 1200 dpi on Windows 7.) NOTE: The following is a 10-year old quote: (2) There is a known problem with FrameMaker under Windows only in which text may disappear from the output page (i.e., selective text dropout) when printing to PostScript devices, including Acrobat Distiller. Unfortunately, the problem is NOT reproducible from system to system or document to document either user sites or within Adobe itself. What we do know is that the larger the logical page size in combination with higher resolution settings aggravates the problems (i.e., makes it more likely that you will actually see the symptom). It is for this reason that we most strongly recommend that you NEVER use a Windows PostScript printer driver setting higher than 600 dpi with FrameMaker. If necessary to print to a higher resolution device, create PDF first (with the Adobe Distiller / Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance set to no more than 600 dpi) and then do the final print from Acrobat / Adobe Reader to the actual print device. In the rare instances where there is still selective text dropout, set the driver resolution to 300 dpi. We know of no situations in which the selective text dropout persists at the 300 dpi setting. What are the ramifications of the lower resolution settings? The resolution of image data is not downsampled or degraded by this resolution setting. Nor is any damage done to vector graphics or the quality of text. What it does control for FrameMaker is the granularity of spacing, especially of text. Setting 600 dpi permits only 600 starting positions per inch and interword spacing in 1/600 inch increments. Images and vector graphics positioning is likewise limited to such increments. At 300 dpi, the value falls to 300 starting positions and 1/300 inch increments. Anything under 300 dpi is absolutely not recommended and could yield some rather gnarly text spacing. Again, we recommend you start at 600 dpi and stay with that if you have no problems. (Note also that 600 dpi gets around another Windows GDI bug in which text formatted in larger point sizes is converted to unhinted outlines. 600 dpi allow for text in pointsizes up to approximately 100 points to remain as text for printing purposes.) On 10/25/2014 10:40 AM, Heiko Haida wrote: Hi Alison, I also had problems to print some single pages to PDF in a larger DIN A3 format: The content was displayed partially, the page was not completely shown (without error message). First I thought the graphic files were corrupt, as taking out the graphics would at least produce a PDF. Then I found that the distiller profile was set to 2400 dpi, and after reducing this to 1200 dpi everything was fine. I don't like it, but it seems FM has some internal memory problems here. Maybe this also applies to your problem. Best regards - Tino H. Haida, Berlin ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more
Re: FM9 Crashes when Creating PDFs with files that Contain PDFs (WAS: Frame 9 Crashing – Can’t Create PDFs)
The SVG bug (which only prevented being able to search text in SVG graphics imported into Frame and then distilled to PDF) was fixed in the latest patch update to FM12. I admit I am not going by direct experience regarding the use of PDF as a graphic format. One of my coworkers has been forced to embed single-page PDFs into Frame files for a particular document set she works on. She was the one who said that the file size bloated from that. The files were output from a database, and she was adding 50 or so to a book. I think she had to break the chapter she was adding them to into multiple files in order to get it to distill properly. I don't think I've ever heard that the preferred workflow was to create a graphic, save it as PDF, and then import it into a Frame file that was going to be PDFed. That seems ... odd to me for some reason, but that may just be me. :-) Good luck, On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Craig, Alison alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com wrote: In what version of Frame is the SVG problem fixed? I’m using FM9. As for why I use the PDFs (from Visio), I was under the impression that this was a recommended workflow. And I’ve never seen anyone mention that including PDF images in the book bloats the final Frame PDF or I might have looked for an alternative before. The interesting things is, I have been using this method for years with the same book files and have never had a problem before. In fact, when I built PDF files for review in mid-September, there wasn’t a single hesitation. The PDFs the *Print to Book…* option first encounter were not edited between mid-September and when I encountered the problem last week. I spent a lot of time thinking over the weekend and remember an issue I had with Pantone warning re: mismatched “definitions”. I cannot recall how I made this go away – or if I actually did anything at all – so I’m going to run a few tests. Cross your fingers for me. Alison *Alison Craig | Technical Documentation Lead * Ultrasonix | 130-4311 Viking Way | Richmond, BC V6V 2K9 | analogicultrasound.com http://www.analogicultrasound.com *T 604-279-8550 ext 127 604-279-8550%20ext%20127 | F 604-279-8559 604-279-8559* *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Lin Sims *Sent:* Monday, October 27, 2014 6:09 AM *To:* Mike Wickham *Cc:* Frame Users *Subject:* Re: FM9 Crashes when Creating PDFs with files that Contain PDFs (WAS: Frame 9 Crashing – Can’t Create PDFs) Out of curiousity, Allison, why are you printing the Visio graphics to PDF and then importing them into a Frame file that is printed to PDF? Embedding a PDF file into a file that is going to be printed to PDF tends to drastically increase the size of the file being distilled. Given that your testing has pretty much narrowed down the issue to pages with embedded PDF images/graphics, I'd strongly suggest seeing if a different image format would do what you need. Is it necessary that they be PDF, or could another searchable format such as SVG (now that Adobe has fixed the SVG to PDF but) be used instead? On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Mike Wickham i...@mikewickham.com wrote: I thought I recalled Dov Isaacs explaining this as a Windows problem, rather than a FrameMaker problem. I found the following quote from him online, which appears to reference what was later called the fntcache.dat bug (and fixed with a hotfix and, later, Windows update), and a Windows bug relating to large page sizes and large fonts. I don't know if that one was ever fixed and may still require setting a lower dpi as a workaround. (I would note that I have no text or image dropout at 1200 dpi on Windows 7.) NOTE: The following is a 10-year old quote: (2) There is a known problem with FrameMaker under Windows only in which text may disappear from the output page (i.e., selective text dropout) when printing to PostScript devices, including Acrobat Distiller. Unfortunately, the problem is NOT reproducible from system to system or document to document either user sites or within Adobe itself. What we do know is that the larger the logical page size in combination with higher resolution settings aggravates the problems (i.e., makes it more likely that you will actually see the symptom). It is for this reason that we most strongly recommend that you NEVER use a Windows PostScript printer driver setting higher than 600 dpi with FrameMaker. If necessary to print to a higher resolution device, create PDF first (with the Adobe Distiller / Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance set to no more than 600 dpi) and then do the final print from Acrobat / Adobe Reader to the actual print device. In the rare instances where there is still selective text dropout, set the driver resolution to 300 dpi. We know of no situations in which the selective text dropout persists at the 300 dpi setting. What
Re: A giggle from the Adobe website
Why do things go pear-shaped? Why not rhombus-shaped, or even watermelon-shaped? Or artichoke--then you get an odd shaped that's all prickly, too. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au wrote: Pat Christenson wrote: I was visiting Adobe's website earlier and noticed that when you sign up, you have to make a choice from the list of Job Titles. One of the choices is End User. Really? That's a job title? ;-) At 07:19 a.m. 28/10/2014, Writer wrote: It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it. I hear the pay sucks, too. And don't we *always* get the blame when something goes pear-shaped? Helen ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: pear shaped RE: A giggle from the Adobe website
Too late! On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote: I thought it was the fear of all technical writers that over the years working at a desk we all will go pear shaped. (Heads up! This is not an irrational fear!) C- ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM9 Crashes when Creating PDFs with files that Contain
Then I guess it's just me ... On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Davis, David david.da...@non.schneider-electric.com wrote: A PDF file of a Visio diagram is more or less just a bunch of PostScript instructions telling the computer to draw some lines and shapes. That's a good efficient easily-portable non-lossy way to represent a vector diagram. Nothing odd about it! David On Monday, October 27, 2014 3:29 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think I've ever heard that the preferred workflow was to create a graphic, save it as PDF, and then import it into a Frame file that was going to be PDFed. That seems ... odd to me for some reason, but that may just be me. :-) ___ *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys Limited, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please select the Legal Entities link at invensys.com. Invensys Limited is owned by the Schneider-Electric Group. You may contact Invensys Limited on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail recept...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Mixed Structured / Unstructured and xrefs
Bare bones background: We have Excel spreadsheets that we convert to XML files using a script. The script also creates a ditamap for all the files and creates an XML file that contains a table that links to all the individual XML files. We use DITAFMx to convert the ditamap and XML files to a single FM file (still in structured). At this point, the xrefs work just fine. Here's the tricky part. I then import (by copy) the newly created FM files into an UNSTRUCTURED FM file (because that's what the rest of the book is in, and no, this is not currently an option to change, don't even ask, it's a MESS), which is opened in FM with the structured interface so that the structured information can be retained. As soon as I copy those files into the container (unstructured) file, the xrefs break. I need those xrefs to NOT break, and I don't have time to relink 500 or so xrefs every time I create this book. I've tried this on the FM install on my desktop, which uses the structured interface but is NOT in a DITA/structured environment, and the FM install on a server, which uses the structured interface and IS in a DITA/Structured environment. If I open the files on their own, they're fine. If I import them into the unstructured document, the links go bye-bye and I can't regenerate them. I'm beyond frustrated. Any clues would be appreciated. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Mixed Structured / Unstructured and xrefs
Yep, the file I'm importing to has no structure. I'm going to try adding it and then importing again. As to why, the highly condensed Readers Digest version is that the company was moving to DITA using Frame, DITA-FMx, and a CCMS called Vasont. Then we got bought. My engineers wanted to be able to edit the files while I was on vacation, amongst other things, so someone higher up in the chain of command demanded we pull the files out of structured and into unstructured, which is where they are. The last time I had to do this, I jerked the XML file with the cross-references out. The spreadsheets, however, are still being converted into XML files because it's a perl script which can write XML just fine but knows nothing of FM binary or even MIF. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com wrote: Lin... It's likely breaking because the cross-refs are linking to elements in the original files, then when you paste into an unstructured file, there are no elements to link to. You'd need to run some process before pasting into the unstructured file which iterates over all cross-refs and relinks them to paras or markers instead of elements. I know you said not to ask .. but I'm not sure why you're converting the structured files into unstructured files. It's OK to have a book that contains both types of files (may not be a best practice but should work). As long as you're dealing with FM binary files, not XML files, you can mix and match as needed. Have you tried just adding the structured files to the book? You will need to enable the structured interface in FM in order to do this, but that should not have any adverse effect on your files. It's perfectly fine to edit unstructured files in the structured interface. Hope that helps. ...scott On 10/30/14 1:53 PM, Lin Sims wrote: Bare bones background: We have Excel spreadsheets that we convert to XML files using a script. The script also creates a ditamap for all the files and creates an XML file that contains a table that links to all the individual XML files. We use DITAFMx to convert the ditamap and XML files to a single FM file (still in structured). At this point, the xrefs work just fine. Here's the tricky part. I then import (by copy) the newly created FM files into an UNSTRUCTURED FM file (because that's what the rest of the book is in, and no, this is not currently an option to change, don't even ask, it's a MESS), which is opened in FM with the structured interface so that the structured information can be retained. As soon as I copy those files into the container (unstructured) file, the xrefs break. I need those xrefs to NOT break, and I don't have time to relink 500 or so xrefs every time I create this book. I've tried this on the FM install on my desktop, which uses the structured interface but is NOT in a DITA/structured environment, and the FM install on a server, which uses the structured interface and IS in a DITA/Structured environment. If I open the files on their own, they're fine. If I import them into the unstructured document, the links go bye-bye and I can't regenerate them. I'm beyond frustrated. Any clues would be appreciated. -- Lin Sims ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Fameusers: Mixed Structured / Unstructured and xrefs
Orly, Chip registers are EXACTLY what those structured files are. This is my first go around with using a mixed environment. What I've wound up doing is keeping the structured generated files separate instead of trying to copy them into the unstructured chapter file, and setting numbering to Use Same Number as Previous Chapter. It messes the white spaces up somewhat, but the xrefs work properly. Just as well, too, since the designers use the same addresses for the different blocks and trying to keep it in structured means that some of the xrefs won't work if they're combined into the same file. shudder On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Orly Zimmerman or...@marvell.com wrote: HI Lin, We have a similar process, where we generate FM files from XML sources for our chip register files. They are structured FM files. The functional specs for the same book are unstructured files. We run FM in structured mode. Auto cross ref’s work as they should – assuming they have the right elements to refer to. The files exist together fine in the structured environment. I had to tweak the headers on the Master pages to get the TOC right, but that works ok too. If you already have the files in structured FM with all the links working, I don’t see why you can’t have them co-exist with the unstructured files in FM. The engineers can get used to structured FM. Maybe create a small training session for them. HTH, Orly -- Orly Zimmerman, Marvell Israel - Technical Communicator Park Azorim, Kyriat Arie Petah Tikva, 49527, Israel Email: or...@marvell.com Office: +972.3.9703440 - OnNet: 705.3440 Fax: +972.3.9704908 Web site: http://www.marvell.com This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or by e-mail and delete the message from your computer. -- -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Break link in graphics imported by reference in FM 12?
Finalizer, from SQUIDDS, has a module that does this called Imported Graphics http://www.finalyser.com/help/#page/Imported%2520graphic/imported_graphic.xml.1.1.html. Not sure how much it costs, though. I haven't used FM12 yet, but there might be ExtendScripts that will do what you want. Prior discussion on this list has suggested that Frame has issues with graphics that are located far away from it. It times out while trying to fetch the graphics. There may be a good solution to it, but after a rough couple of days, I don't remember what it might be. :( On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Studio Smalbro stu...@smalbro.dk wrote: I am running FrameMaker 12 and I have a lot of trouble with generating pdf files. I believe the problem arises from having pages with graphics imported by reference - but graphics which are stored on different servers. It seems that FrameMaker has trouble with handling the links to the servers in the printing process. I would like to break the links and have the graphics embedded - but is there a way to change from referenced to embedded without having to re-import the graphics? Regards Bjørn ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Persist a variable to the next file
Can you copy paste the code you have in your variable and send it to the list? On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:55 PM, john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com wrote: Good afternoon, guys.. I have a book that uses the variable Running H/F 1 in my footer that picks up Chapter Title. The hierarchy is Chapter Title, Heading 1, Heading 2, etc,. The problem is, for the sections that follow Chapter Title that start with Heading 1, the variable displays blank. The question is, how to I get Chapter Title to persist until changed by the next Chapter Title? John X Posada AML Syst Ops Supt Data Analyst | US FCC RC Systems Control Analytics | HSBC North America Holdings Inc 330 Madison Ave., NY NY ___ Phone Int: 212-525-5483 Ext: Personal cellphone - 732-259-2874 Mobile Company Blackberry - 224-600-0570 Email john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com ___ Protect our environment - please only print this if you have to! - ** This E-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies from your system and notify the sender immediately by return E-mail. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions. ** SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT! ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Persist a variable to the next file
OK, that was about what I thought. The short answer is, you can't do it with a RunningH/F, as it only picks up the information in the CURRENT file. If you want to bring the Chapter title over from a previous file, you'll have to edit the master page to use a cross-reference back to the file with the title in it (and set the link color to black so it doesn't look like a link). Then you have to remember that this will need to be redone every time you import page layouts to those files. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:14 PM, john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com wrote: Nothing complicated about it: $paratext[ChapterTitle] I don't think the issue is the composition of the variable...it works fine when the page has a paragraph tag Chapter Title. The issue is when the para text doesn't appear in the FM file, but does in a previous file that I want to carry forward. John X Posada AML Syst Ops Supt Data Analyst | US FCC RC Systems Control Analytics | HSBC North America Holdings Inc 330 Madison Ave., NY NY ___ Phone Int: 212-525-5483 Ext: Personal cellphone - 732-259-2874 Mobile Company Blackberry - 224-600-0570 Email john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com ___ Protect our environment - please only print this if you have to! | | From: | | --| |Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com | --| | | To:| | --| |John X Posada/HBUS/HSBC@HSBC02 | --| | | Cc:| | --| |Frame Users framers@lists.frameusers.com | --| | | Date: | | --| |12/08/2014 05:01 PM | --| | | Subject: | | --| |Re: Persist a variable to the next file | --| Can you copy paste the code you have in your variable and send it to the list? On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:55 PM, john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com wrote: Good afternoon, guys.. I have a book that uses the variable Running H/F 1 in my footer that picks up Chapter Title. The hierarchy is Chapter Title, Heading 1, Heading 2, etc,. The problem is, for the sections that follow Chapter Title that start with Heading 1, the variable displays blank. The question is, how to I get Chapter Title to persist until changed by the next Chapter Title? John X Posada AML Syst Ops Supt Data Analyst | US FCC RC Systems Control Analytics | HSBC North America Holdings Inc 330 Madison Ave., NY NY ___ Phone Int: 212-525-5483 Ext: Personal cellphone - 732-259-2874 Mobile Company Blackberry - 224-600-0570 Email john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com ___ Protect our environment - please only print this if you have to! - ** This E-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies from your system and notify the sender
Re: Question for the Group: Create a Conditionalized or Hierarchical Book
Hi Tony, Pretty much what Laura said. I maintain multiple guides that can have different chapters depending on whether the information is for one customer or another. I have what I call a master book file that contains all the files (this has to do with our CMS and locating stuff, you may not need it), including the separate book files for each version of the book. Chapters in common between books may have conditional text or variables to further customize. Each book has a separate document information file that records the chapters contained in the book, the variables used and their values, and the condition set up for producing a final. When I want to create a specific book, I open the master book file, open the specific book file, open all the files in the book, open the document information file, import conditional text settings and variables from the document information file into all the book files, and generate. Good luck. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Tony Marek (PDF) tony.ma...@pdf.com wrote: I currently need to create a new non-structured book in Frame 12 that will have one of three possible outputs (to .pdf). I’m looking for advice on the best way to create and maintain the project. To simplify the problem: previously we had the Product A user manual and the Product B user manual – maintained and distributed separately. These manuals are each at about 15 chapters and 800+ pages each, with little or no overlapping content. Now, my company has merged the two products into an optional third product, so that we have three possible product permutations (and manuals): Product A, Product B and now the new Product C (which consists of all of the components/chapters from both A+B). So my question is: what is the best way to merge the two document sets so that I can publish Manual A, Manual B or Manual C (A+B), depending on the customer. Should I conditionalize all the chapters under one book – so that I would only display and publish the appropriate chapters based on the customer — e.g. publish chapters set to Condition A, Condition B, or both conditions for Product C? Or should I use the hierarchical book structure and then add/delete the subordinate book depending on the customer release? I have no experience with hierarchical books so I’m not sure what the benefits or drawbacks are. I could also simply add/delete the appropriate A/B chapters from the master book manually – but with 30+ chapters, this seems like it could be prone to mistakes in publishing the correct content. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Thanks, ~Tony ~ ~ ~ *This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If it has been sent to you in error, please reply to advise the sender of the error and then immediately permanently delete it and all attachments to it from your systems. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message or any attachments to it. The sender disclaims any liability for such unauthorized use. PLEASE NOTE that all incoming e-mails sent to PDF e-mail accounts will be archived and may be scanned by us and/or by external service providers to detect and prevent threats to our systems, investigate illegal or inappropriate behavior, and/or eliminate unsolicited promotional e-mails (“spam”). If you have any concerns about this process, please contact us at * *legal.departm...@pdf.com* legal.departm...@pdf.com*.* ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Deleting Variables at the Book Level
Has Electropubs come back online? The last time I tried the site, it was gone. If it is, then Clean Import is no longer available. Which is sad, as it was a very useful utility. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:53 PM, David Spreadbury dspre...@yahoo.com wrote: Tony, You need the Clean Import plugin. You manually clean up on chapter in the book, then run Clean Import against the rest of the book and you are done. Works with para tags, char tags, cond text, etc. On Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:36 PM, Tony Marek (PDF) tony.ma...@pdf.com wrote: Hello all – Second question in one week: Is there any easy way to delete obsolete variables from the variables library at the book level (Frame 12)? I’m trying to create a consistent list of variables across all chapters in a book and I can’t find a way to do the deletions except chapter-by-chapter. Importing variables from one up-to-date chapter to others does not perform any deletions of variables not on the source/master file. Thanks, ~Tony ~ ~ ~ *This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If it has been sent to you in error, please reply to advise the sender of the error and then immediately permanently delete it and all attachments to it from your systems. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message or any attachments to it. The sender disclaims any liability for such unauthorized use. PLEASE NOTE that all incoming e-mails sent to PDF e-mail accounts will be archived and may be scanned by us and/or by external service providers to detect and prevent threats to our systems, investigate illegal or inappropriate behavior, and/or eliminate unsolicited promotional e-mails (“spam”). If you have any concerns about this process, please contact us at * *legal.departm...@pdf.com* legal.departm...@pdf.com*.* ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as dspre...@yahoo.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dspreadb%40yahoo.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Deleting Variables at the Book Level
I'm not allowed to install it at work. :-( Got it at home, though, with FM8. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:15 PM, David Spreadbury dspre...@yahoo.com wrote: Ah, but those of us that hung onto the file still get to utilize it. I recently upgraded to FM12 and installed it. Wouldn't be the same without it. On Thursday, December 18, 2014 3:06 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Has Electropubs come back online? The last time I tried the site, it was gone. If it is, then Clean Import is no longer available. Which is sad, as it was a very useful utility. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:53 PM, David Spreadbury dspre...@yahoo.com wrote: Tony, You need the Clean Import plugin. You manually clean up on chapter in the book, then run Clean Import against the rest of the book and you are done. Works with para tags, char tags, cond text, etc. On Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:36 PM, Tony Marek (PDF) tony.ma...@pdf.com wrote: Hello all – Second question in one week: Is there any easy way to delete obsolete variables from the variables library at the book level (Frame 12)? I’m trying to create a consistent list of variables across all chapters in a book and I can’t find a way to do the deletions except chapter-by-chapter. Importing variables from one up-to-date chapter to others does not perform any deletions of variables not on the source/master file. Thanks, ~Tony ~ ~ ~ *This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If it has been sent to you in error, please reply to advise the sender of the error and then immediately permanently delete it and all attachments to it from your systems. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message or any attachments to it. The sender disclaims any liability for such unauthorized use. PLEASE NOTE that all incoming e-mails sent to PDF e-mail accounts will be archived and may be scanned by us and/or by external service providers to detect and prevent threats to our systems, investigate illegal or inappropriate behavior, and/or eliminate unsolicited promotional e-mails (“spam”). If you have any concerns about this process, please contact us at * *legal.departm...@pdf.com* legal.departm...@pdf.com*.* ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as dspre...@yahoo.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dspreadb%40yahoo.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Acrobat X: Manually sending a Shared Review
Acrobat X doesn't support using a web-based email for sending Shared Review invitations. It does let you manually send invitations, but I've not been able to find actual instructions for how to do that. The situation is complicated by the fact that I am using WebDAV and a cloud storage service for collecting the review comments. I'm assuming that what you do is attach the review file to an email and send it on with whatever information is required, but you know what they say about assumptions. I'm also wondering what, if anything, will happen if a reviewer tried to open the folder Acrobat creates for storing comments on the cloud server. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
NOT a How Do I. Query re conditionaling table columns
Playing with Frame12's (yes, we FINALLY got to upgrade) new conditional tag interface, and something occurred to me that has before but I never got around to asking. WHY can't Frame apply conditional tags to table columns? It's not a feature I particularly need (although there's been a time or two it would have come in right handy), but I've been curious about this for a while. I'm guessing it has something to do with the original internal structure, so I'm hoping those who have been long time users might have some insight. I don't need an answer fast. :) Technically, I don't need an answer at all, but I'm still curious. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: NOT a How Do I. Query re conditionaling table columns
The problem is that if you have a LOT of rows, it won't work. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:15 AM, David Artman da...@davidartman.com wrote: While we're talking underlying theory/structure: I suspect many tables in which one wants to conditionalize a column could be refactored so that the columns were instead rows, which are conditionable. Thoughts? Yes, theoretically, if you didn't have spanned cells, you could hide/show the cells that make up a column, but since there is no column object, there's no place to assign that data. You can conditionalize rows, but cells are a bit of a different beast. It would be possible to make a plugin or script that would assign a condition to the content of all cells in a column, but you'd have to actually delete the cells that make up that column to hide it. The closest thing to a column object that you could assign a property to for this purpose would be the colspec element in DITA. But in looking, that doesn't allow the outputclass attribute (or other likely attributes) where you'd assign a value that you could check for during some publishing process to hide/delete that column. If I were to want to do this, I'd probably set a marker in the column header to indicate a hide/show property, then set up some sort of process during publishing. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
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Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
Yeah, I tried that, too. As you said, the difference was fairly minimal. I am hoping that the next time I create the generated files that things clear up, since they'll essentially be from scratch. Possibly when I was doing work elsewhere in the document, they got caught in an edit they shouldn't have. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:31 PM, David Boss bossc...@rogers.com wrote: Don't remove Links, actions and javascripts and the bookmarks will be retained. Unfortunately, although it can reduce file size by up to 70% in my experience, sometimes the reduction is minimal. David *Boss Communications / Boss Photographic* www.bosscommunications.com / www.bossphotographic.com *From:* Lin Sims [mailto:ljsims...@gmail.com] *Sent:* February-18-15 2:16 PM *To:* David Boss *Cc:* Frame Users *Subject:* Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding Thanks for the tip. I tried removing everything but the metadata (which was only the doc title), but it only trimmed about 2Mb off and took the bookmarks with it. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:36 PM, David Boss bossc...@rogers.com wrote: Try Tools Protection Remove Hidden Information. Even if you only select something like Hidden text, it removes a lot of other things like reader extensions, review and forms workflows, and information added by third-party applications. It can reduce the file size significantly. David Boss Communications / Boss Photographic www.bosscommunications.com / www.bossphotographic.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
Thanks for the tip. I tried removing everything but the metadata (which was only the doc title), but it only trimmed about 2Mb off and took the bookmarks with it. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:36 PM, David Boss bossc...@rogers.com wrote: Try Tools Protection Remove Hidden Information. Even if you only select something like Hidden text, it removes a lot of other things like reader extensions, review and forms workflows, and information added by third-party applications. It can reduce the file size significantly. David Boss Communications / Boss Photographic www.bosscommunications.com / www.bossphotographic.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM12: PDF file size exploding
Has anyone had an issue with the size of a generated PDF increasing dramatically after moving a book from FM10 to FM12 (or any earlier version of FM to FM12)? I've got a book that's gone from under 3M to over 12M, and that's AFTER running the Save as Reduced Size. Is this a bug, have I not set something up in either FM12 or Acrobat 10 correctly, or is there a solution? Thanks, -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
The PDF has to be posted as a shared review on a cloud web storage site. There's a size limit to what you can upload. My company is using corporate GMAIL and I have a 30Gb limit on storage, and for now I have to attach a shared review enabled PDF to an email to allow reviewers to join the review*. Admittedly, this one file isn't going to break either of those limits, but it's not something I can keep doing for a long period of time. Plus the sudden increase in size worries me. If there's a problem with the files, I need to find it before things get hosed (and yes, I did run all the files through a MIF wash). *I will be testing 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 about $0.10 per gigabyte for hard disk or $0.50 per gigabyte for SSD, I'm not sure it's worthwhile worrying about 10 MB more or less. That's less than 1/2 cent's worth of storage space. Unless you know your 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: FM12: PDF file size exploding From: ljsims...@gmail.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Has anyone had an issue with the size of a generated PDF increasing dramatically after moving a book from FM10 to FM12 (or any earlier version of FM to FM12)? I've got a book that's gone from under 3M to over 12M, and that's AFTER running the Save as Reduced Size. Is this a bug, have I not set something up in either FM12 or Acrobat 10 correctly, or is there a solution? Thanks, -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
Ah! More information I left out! The book is an unstructured book, but it includes 3 files that were created from structured data. Those 3 files are still structured, because that's the only way to keep the xref links working. The process is this: 1. An Excel 2010 spreadsheet is converted to multiple .xml files by using a script, which inserts the correct DITA tags and also creates a .ditamap for them. 2. The ditamap is converted into a Frame book using DITAFMx, which gives me a book file with a TOC and a single .xml.fm file. 3. The .xml.fm file is added to an unstructured Frame book but is left as a structured file. 4. The book is updated/generated and then a PDF is generated using Save As PDF. As I said, when I was working in FM10, the PDF had a size of about 3, 3.5M. The files were recently converted from FM10 to FM12. When I use the above process and generate the PDF from FM12, the file size has gone to about 12-13M. The files that had been converted from .xml to .fm have not changed since the last time I created the PDF in FM10. The rest of the files have changed but not in a major way. In a few days I expect to regenerate those .xml files from the source Excel, so maybe something will change. It just seemed weird that the move from FM10 to FM12 seemed to result in such a large increase in the PDF size. I'll keep y'all posted. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com wrote: If these files started off as XML or structured files, and the others didn't, there could definitely be some extra cruft in there. You probably checked this already, but are these files still structured? I haven't noticed any significant size difference in PDFs from XML from FM11 to FM12. I just did a quick test of a single page .. when saved to PDF from FM11 it's 63KB and from FM12 it's 69 KB .. over 100 pages that might be a difference of 60KB. Not a big difference from my perspective. Doing a similar test with an unstructured file, the FM11 PDF is 34 KB and the FM12 PDF is 40KB. The structured/XML sourced file actually has less content than the unstructured file, and the resulting PDF is larger .. so it's possible that your PDFs that come from XML may be larger. And there does seem to be an increase in size (from both structured and unstructured) in PDFs from FM11 to FM12. You might check to see if your files are still structured .. removing the structure (if that's the intent) might reduce the file size. Also, since these files came through a different path, they may have additional content/graphics/?? on reference pages which could increase the file size. Cheers, ...scott On 2/17/15 9:50 AM, Lin Sims wrote: After a bit of testing, the increase seems to be linked to 3 files that were created using DITAFMx from a batch of xml files that were generated by script from an Excel workbook. Interestingly, these files have always been part of the document (and inserted in the same way), so I'm not sure why there's a sudden file size increase. I'll be regenerating these files again soon, so I'll see if the increase continues. It's still odd. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:39 PM, David Spreadbury dspre...@yahoo.com wrote: Lin, I just tested your issue opening a 12 page text only structured FM7.2 file and saving it as FM12. Did nothing more than open the FM7.2 in FM12 and then save it as a FM12 document. Printed FM12 version using Acro XI Adobe PDF driver. Distilled postscript to PDF. FM7.2 file size=358KB Acro 8 PDF=207KB FM12 file size=8630KB Acro XI PDF=278KB This was one chapter of a 30+ chapter book. The Acro8 PDF of the book is 3025KB. I can open and update all the chapters, but with only 70KB increase in one chapter, I would expect a slight increase in the book, but nothing like you are experiencing. Dave On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:18 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: The PDF has to be posted as a shared review on a cloud web storage site. There's a size limit to what you can upload. My company is using corporate GMAIL and I have a 30Gb limit on storage, and for now I have to attach a shared review enabled PDF to an email to allow reviewers to join the review*. Admittedly, this one file isn't going to break either of those limits, but it's not something I can keep doing for a long period of time. Plus the sudden increase in size worries me. If there's a problem with the files, I need to find it before things get hosed (and yes, I did run all the files through a MIF wash). *I will be testing 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 about $0.10 per gigabyte for hard disk or $0.50 per gigabyte for SSD, I'm not sure
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
Yes, 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 of us to have never noticed whatever change may have occurred, or to have never spent time investigating if we *did* notice a difference. In other words, you might not see a lot of responses to your query because many of us have had no need to pay attention to this issue. -FR -- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:18:11 -0500 Subject: Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding From: ljsims...@gmail.com To: docu...@hotmail.com CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com The PDF has to be posted as a shared review on a cloud web storage site. There's a size limit to what you can upload. My company is using corporate GMAIL and I have a 30Gb limit on storage, and for now I have to attach a shared review enabled PDF to an email to allow reviewers to join the review*. Admittedly, this one file isn't going to break either of those limits, but it's not something I can keep doing for a long period of time. Plus the sudden increase in size worries me. If there's a problem with the files, I need to find it before things get hosed (and yes, I did run all the files through a MIF wash). *I will be testing 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 about $0.10 per gigabyte for hard disk or $0.50 per gigabyte for SSD, I'm not sure it's worthwhile worrying about 10 MB more or less. That's less than 1/2 cent's worth of storage space. Unless you know your 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: FM12: PDF file size exploding From: ljsims...@gmail.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Has anyone had an issue with the size of a generated PDF increasing dramatically after moving a book from FM10 to FM12 (or any earlier version of FM to FM12)? I've got a book that's gone from under 3M to over 12M, and that's AFTER running the Save as Reduced Size. Is this a bug, have I not set something up in either FM12 or Acrobat 10 correctly, or is there a solution? Thanks, -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
After a bit of testing, the increase seems to be linked to 3 files that were created using DITAFMx from a batch of xml files that were generated by script from an Excel workbook. Interestingly, these files have always been part of the document (and inserted in the same way), so I'm not sure why there's a sudden file size increase. I'll be regenerating these files again soon, so I'll see if the increase continues. It's still odd. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:39 PM, David Spreadbury dspre...@yahoo.com wrote: Lin, I just tested your issue opening a 12 page text only structured FM7.2 file and saving it as FM12. Did nothing more than open the FM7.2 in FM12 and then save it as a FM12 document. Printed FM12 version using Acro XI Adobe PDF driver. Distilled postscript to PDF. FM7.2 file size=358KB Acro 8 PDF=207KB FM12 file size=8630KB Acro XI PDF=278KB This was one chapter of a 30+ chapter book. The Acro8 PDF of the book is 3025KB. I can open and update all the chapters, but with only 70KB increase in one chapter, I would expect a slight increase in the book, but nothing like you are experiencing. Dave On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:18 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: The PDF has to be posted as a shared review on a cloud web storage site. There's a size limit to what you can upload. My company is using corporate GMAIL and I have a 30Gb limit on storage, and for now I have to attach a shared review enabled PDF to an email to allow reviewers to join the review*. Admittedly, this one file isn't going to break either of those limits, but it's not something I can keep doing for a long period of time. Plus the sudden increase in size worries me. If there's a problem with the files, I need to find it before things get hosed (and yes, I did run all the files through a MIF wash). *I will be testing 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 about $0.10 per gigabyte for hard disk or $0.50 per gigabyte for SSD, I'm not sure it's worthwhile worrying about 10 MB more or less. That's less than 1/2 cent's worth of storage space. Unless you know your 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: FM12: PDF file size exploding From: ljsims...@gmail.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Has anyone had an issue with the size of a generated PDF increasing dramatically after moving a book from FM10 to FM12 (or any earlier version of FM to FM12)? I've got a book that's gone from under 3M to over 12M, and that's AFTER running the Save as Reduced Size. Is this a bug, have I not set something up in either FM12 or Acrobat 10 correctly, or is there a solution? Thanks, -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as dspre...@yahoo.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dspreadb%40yahoo.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Deactivate not available for for Framemaker 10
I know you are set up as the administrator on the laptop, but is it possible you're not running FrameMaker in the administration mode? On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Tammy Van Boening tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com wrote: Hi Heiko, It's my business laptop and I am therefore set up as the administrator and the PC is connected to the internet - hard-wired in fact, not even wireless. J I am doing what you suggested about going ahead and trying to install as another suggested offlist. Just frustrating and a big time waster to try deal with something that should be so simple. thanks! TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com www.spectrumwritingllc.com 303-840-1755 *From:* Heiko Haida [mailto:i...@heiko-haida.de] *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:03 AM *To:* Tammy Van Boening; Framers *Subject:* Re: Deactivate not available for for Framemaker 10 Hi Tammy, it may be necessary to work with admin rights to have the Deactivate button available, or maybe it will only work if the computer is connected with the internet. If this did not help: Maybe you could just try to install FM 10 on the second laptop and see if the program would run with your license... Best regards - Tino H. Haida, Berlin Tammy Van Boening: HI All, I have two Win 7, 64 bit machines (one desktop and one laptop) both with Framemaker 10 installed, all patched and current. I need to deactivate the instance of FM 10 on the laptop so that I can install and activate it on a second laptop. When I open the instance of FM 10 on the desktop, the Deactivate option is available from the Help menu. Great, but I do not want to deactivate this instance. When I open the instance of FM 10 on the laptop, the Deactivate option is grayed-out and no matter what I do, I cannot get to become enabled. I have closed and reopened FM multiple times, I have opened and closed existing FM documents, I have created and saved new FM documents, but no joy. I can't deactivate the FM instance on my desktop . . .it has to be the one on the laptop. Any thoughts or suggestions? TIA, TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com www.spectrumwritingllc.com 303-840-1755 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Frameusers Website and Fuzzy Buttons in Frame 12
Anyone know if Brad is still maintaining this? I was just there hoping to do a search through the email archives, and they don't appear to exist anymore. I was trying to find a thread I could have sworn I'd read on this list about Frame 12 having a fuzzy interface, along with an eventual fix. Anyone remember either the thread or the fix? Thanks, -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Acrobat X: Manually sending a Shared Review
Hi all, I worked with Box a lot yesterday (that's the cloud-based storage I mentioned), and with some experimentation and testing aid from two of the designers I support, I figured out how to do Shared Reviews with Box as a WebDAV server. I have to say, I was almost unreasonably excited when we got it to work. I'm trying to generalize what we worked out so I can update this thread with the solution if anyone is interested, but that may take a few days. Thanks to all who supplied suggestions and information. This list rocks. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Zimmerman, Gary gary.zimmer...@teradata.com wrote: *When you do a server-based shared review, each reviewer's comments are actually stored separate from the review PDF, in separate XML files that are somehow linked to the PDF document. That’s why you can have multiple reviewers reviewing and marking up the document at the same time.* *If you use the option to save an archive copy of the file, the comments existing at the moment are all flattened into the PDF file that is saved, as regular PDF-based comments and markup.* *Not sure how that's handled with email-distributed review copies going to reviewers who don't have access to the server where all the XML files are stored.* *-- garyZ* *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Heiko Haida *Sent:* Monday, January 26, 2015 2:25 PM *To:* Fred Ridder *Cc:* framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* RE: Acrobat X: Manually sending a Shared Review Hi Fred, I was also thinking of the fact that Acrobat will use a PDF file with some modifications, like the comment function readied for Adobe Reader, not the original file. (This is a useful service and you would have to keep this in mind if your doing it without Acrobat.) But you are right, of course it is possible to share the file and start a review-cycle the old-fashioned way, only -- probably -- this will not be so effortless. To me, the server-based workflow seems to be better suited for a quick and efficient review than the email-based workflow. Best regards - Tino H. Haida, Berlin Fred Ridder: I don't think that's entirely true, Tino. You can still do a email-based PDF review with an unsupported mail system, but it's not automatic and it probably won't be integrated back to the FrameMaker source (I don't know about this last because I've never tried it). The process involves exporting the comments from the PDF that each reviewer sends and then importing those comments into the master review PDF. Look in the Options menu for the Comments List section of the Comments tool palette (or whatevertheheck Adobe calls it...) for the Export All as Data File and Import Data File 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...@heiko-haida.de To: ljsims...@gmail.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Acrobat X: Manually sending a Shared Review Hi Lin, if Acrobat does not recognize the email client (like when a web-based email is used), you cannot send the file specially prepared for the review, which means that you cannot use the email review process at all (as far as I understand it). You would not be able to store your PDF file in the specific format that is necessary for the workflow; e.g. to collect all comments in one final version at the end of one review cycle, Acrobat has to recognize the files as original or commented versions of one review process. (...I guess.) There are two other options for a workflow which is not email-based but server-based: 1) A server-path is available for all reviewers (could be WebDAV) 2) acrobat.com could be used as a server (Adobe ID required for setup) In both cases the reviewers would either work with the server copy, or work with local copies, where each comment is automatically transfered to the server copy. This way, all comments are visible immediately for all reviewers and can also be answered, which can be very useful (connection to server-path/internet must be available to publish the comments). This way, the comments do not have to be re-imported into the original version from all the different commented files. Best regards - Tino H. Haida. Berlin Lin Sims: Acrobat X doesn't support using a web-based email for sending Shared Review invitations. It does let you manually send invitations, but I've not been able to find actual instructions for how to do that. The situation is complicated by the fact that I am using WebDAV and a cloud storage service for collecting the review comments. I'm assuming that what you do is attach the review file to an email
Re: Anchored Graphics, Columns, and Runaround Properties
Yeah, I tried that. It's an almost there; basically, the graphic spans a column, gutter, and part of the other column, and all the text after the paragraph it's anchored in winds up below it in both columns. It's close enough, I suppose. There doesn't seem to be any way to get the text in the second column to flow around the graphic unless it's in a regular, unanchored frame. On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Doris Evans-McCarthy doris.evans-mccar...@riverbed.com wrote: There are properties you can set when you created the anchored frame. It sounds like the one you want is perhaps “Run Into Paragraph” Disclaimer – I haven’t used this before, but I figure it might do what you want. D Doris Evans-McCarthy *Sr. Technical Writer* *Riverbed Technology* doris.evans-mccar...@riverbed.com Home Office (Frederick, MD) ph: 301-624-4054 mobile: 240-457-1115 *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Lin Sims *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2015 10:28 AM *To:* Frame Users *Subject:* Anchored Graphics, Columns, and Runaround Properties This question is for a coworker not on the list: Pertinents: FrameMaker 12, latest patch Windows 7 Professional Page layout: 2 columns (equal sized with a small gutter) My coworker has a graphic that is somewhat wider than a single column plus the gutter. She needs the text in the 2nd column of the page to runaround the graphic, which is in an anchored frame in accordance with our documentation standards. My recollection is that you can't have both an anchored frame and text that runs around the frame, but I'd love to find out that I'm wrong. If I'm not wrong, I'll tell them they can either have the anchored frame and obscured text, or a plain old graphic frame that they may have to adjust the position on. -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Anchored Graphics, Columns, and Runaround Properties
This question is for a coworker not on the list: Pertinents: FrameMaker 12, latest patch Windows 7 Professional Page layout: 2 columns (equal sized with a small gutter) My coworker has a graphic that is somewhat wider than a single column plus the gutter. She needs the text in the 2nd column of the page to runaround the graphic, which is in an anchored frame in accordance with our documentation standards. My recollection is that you can't have both an anchored frame and text that runs around the frame, but I'd love to find out that I'm wrong. If I'm not wrong, I'll tell them they can either have the anchored frame and obscured text, or a plain old graphic frame that they may have to adjust the position on. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: How to Choose the Right Image File Format for Print
Where I work we use either PNGs (if we have a screenshot) or SVGs (generated from Visio). We do a *lot *of Visio diagrams. On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Carol J. Elkins celk...@awrittenword.com wrote: Here is a really good article (I think) about the various graphic file formats and when to use and not use them. http://www.creativepro.com/article/how-to-choose-the- right-image-file-format-for-print I've read dozens of similar articles and this one stands out for its clarity. This past year I've been using native Illustrator files in my Framemaker documents almost exclusively and am really happy with the decision. I previously had used a lot of imported PDF files as graphics and although they generally did not cause any mishaps, occasionally I'd have some seriously wonky problems with PDFs generated from Framemaker files that had PDF files imported by reference. Just curious as to whether others are using native Illustrator or Photoshop files instead of traditional .tif, eps, or (gasp) jpg formats. Carol ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Looking for an easier way to convert FM12 files to MIF12
Frame has a number of sample scripts it ships with. If you install the one for MIF washing, it will save all the files in the book. This is a book-level utility, and you'll find it up in the toolbar under Book Utilities once you've installed it (and you have the book open and in focus). On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:43 PM, tom.beiswen...@emhartglass.com wrote: I know there must be an easier way to do this. We have a translation agency that doesn't want to spring for FM12 upgrades to be compatible with the FM12 docs that we create. For what we pay them every year... (but that's another story). Instead, they want us to convert everything to MIF (MIF12 seems to work for them). This isn't a really big deal, but it would seem like there must be an easier way to save the FM12 files as MIF12 files without having to open each file and save it individually. Suggestions, please. Tom Beiswenger Manager, Technical Training Documentation, Project Manager - Inspection Business Emhart Glass Mfg. Inc. 1140 Sullivan St. Elmira, NY 14901 PH: +607 735-4279 FX: +607 734-8278 Mobile: +607 769-4779 Email: tom.beiswen...@emhartglass.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: SVG import FrameMaker 11 failed
FM12, too. At least, the Object Properties shows both PDF and SVG. On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Simon BUCH simon.b...@m-ais.com wrote: Goedeavond Wim, It does appear that FrameMaker 10 and 11 create a PDF facet when importing the SVG. // Simon BUCH On 13/03/2015 13:05, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: Som extra info: we found a logfile (empty), named svg2pdf.log after the svg import failed. does FM convert SVG to PDF to create a preview? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Equation Palette: What are all the buttons?
Thanks, Klaus and Fred, both of these are of big help. On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Klaus Daube fr...@daube.ch wrote: On 23 Mar 2015 at 16:19, Lin Sims wrote: On the Operators tab, there are three different buttons showing a large ? with a smaller one up and to the right. At least one of these is a superscript and one is an exponent. I've no idea what the third one is, and I don't know which button is which. I'd like to. Lin, may this help? http://www.daube.ch/docu/fm-kurs/handout-fm80.pdf#page=265 ... And if you have a large (highres) screen, you may have a look at http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker63.html HTH Klaus Daube ~~ Docu + Design Daube; Schäracher 11; CH-8053 Zürich Technical documentation consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: d...@daube.ch W: www.daube.ch -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?
I tried that, too, actually. First thing I did, and I should have listed it. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Combs, Richard (CW) richard.co...@polycom.com wrote: If what the FM10 help says is correct, this is because FM10 apparently didn’t import the graphics in native SVG format (emphasis added): When importing a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG), the SVG Import dialog box allows the user to select the *rasterization* quality of the image. By increasing the rasterization quality, printed and PDF versions are crisper; however, increasing the rasterization also increases the file size of the image, and it takes longer to import it. FrameMaker prints Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images to PostScript printers by *rendering* the images as vector graphics using Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). For non-PostScript printers, FrameMaker uses the FrameImage format. If I’m interpreting this correctly, FM10 converted SVGs to raster (bitmapped) images on import. It rendered those bitmaps as vector graphics when outputting to a PostScript device (printer or PDF), but at that point the text is not text, just lines – vectors describing a sequence of dots. So the damage is done upon import, and nothing done subsequently can undo it. You have to reimport the original SVGs. My sympathies. *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Lin Sims *Sent:* Friday, February 27, 2015 6:22 AM *To:* Davis, David *Cc:* framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* Re: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement? Syed, Are these brand new files created by FM12, or are these files you converted from an earlier version? I ask because I've discovered that (at least for me) the text-searchable SVG graphic bug, which is listed as fixed for FM12, is only fixed if you're talking about new documents. None of the documents I have that were converted from FM10 to FM12 will produce PDFs with text-searchable SVG graphics. All of the documents that are created in FM12 produce PDFs with searchable SVG graphics. So far I've determined that MIF-washing doesn't fix this, that you can't simply import the contents of the FM10 file into the FM12 file, and that you can't copy paste using the Frame Interchange Format. Copy pasting as Unicode text does work, but of course you then have to reapply all your formatting tags and recreate all your xrefs and conditionaled content. Oddly, you can copy and paste the tables in without causing an issue. Note that my company's workflow is to use unstructured FM with embedded graphics; I do not know if this applies to structured FM or XML files or referenced graphics. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Davis, David david.da...@non.schneider-electric.com wrote: If people have a problem with a specific bug, I really would recommend logging it in the Adobe bug tracker. When I logged my CMYK issue, there was already one other bug report in there for the same thing, and I did get a fix within about 3 months, which is a pretty good turnaround for a behemoth like FrameMaker! The more people log a bug. the higher a priority it will get with their dev team. David From: Denis Daly [d.d...@icpnewtech.com] Sent: 27 February 2015 08:56 To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); Davis, David; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement? Please keep us informed of your experiences with the CMYK issue Syed. I (along with many others) was hoping this latest update would have solved the problem. Denis *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys Limited, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please select the Legal Entities link at invensys.com. Invensys Limited is owned by the Schneider-Electric Group. You may contact Invensys Limited on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail recept...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims
Re: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?
And it's making a liar out of me. I just tried it again, and this time it worked. Honestly, sometimes it isn't even worth banging your head against a table. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: I tried that, too, actually. First thing I did, and I should have listed it. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Combs, Richard (CW) richard.co...@polycom.com wrote: If what the FM10 help says is correct, this is because FM10 apparently didn’t import the graphics in native SVG format (emphasis added): When importing a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG), the SVG Import dialog box allows the user to select the *rasterization* quality of the image. By increasing the rasterization quality, printed and PDF versions are crisper; however, increasing the rasterization also increases the file size of the image, and it takes longer to import it. FrameMaker prints Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images to PostScript printers by *rendering* the images as vector graphics using Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). For non-PostScript printers, FrameMaker uses the FrameImage format. If I’m interpreting this correctly, FM10 converted SVGs to raster (bitmapped) images on import. It rendered those bitmaps as vector graphics when outputting to a PostScript device (printer or PDF), but at that point the text is not text, just lines – vectors describing a sequence of dots. So the damage is done upon import, and nothing done subsequently can undo it. You have to reimport the original SVGs. My sympathies. *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Lin Sims *Sent:* Friday, February 27, 2015 6:22 AM *To:* Davis, David *Cc:* framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* Re: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement? Syed, Are these brand new files created by FM12, or are these files you converted from an earlier version? I ask because I've discovered that (at least for me) the text-searchable SVG graphic bug, which is listed as fixed for FM12, is only fixed if you're talking about new documents. None of the documents I have that were converted from FM10 to FM12 will produce PDFs with text-searchable SVG graphics. All of the documents that are created in FM12 produce PDFs with searchable SVG graphics. So far I've determined that MIF-washing doesn't fix this, that you can't simply import the contents of the FM10 file into the FM12 file, and that you can't copy paste using the Frame Interchange Format. Copy pasting as Unicode text does work, but of course you then have to reapply all your formatting tags and recreate all your xrefs and conditionaled content. Oddly, you can copy and paste the tables in without causing an issue. Note that my company's workflow is to use unstructured FM with embedded graphics; I do not know if this applies to structured FM or XML files or referenced graphics. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Davis, David david.da...@non.schneider-electric.com wrote: If people have a problem with a specific bug, I really would recommend logging it in the Adobe bug tracker. When I logged my CMYK issue, there was already one other bug report in there for the same thing, and I did get a fix within about 3 months, which is a pretty good turnaround for a behemoth like FrameMaker! The more people log a bug. the higher a priority it will get with their dev team. David From: Denis Daly [d.d...@icpnewtech.com] Sent: 27 February 2015 08:56 To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); Davis, David; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement? Please keep us informed of your experiences with the CMYK issue Syed. I (along with many others) was hoping this latest update would have solved the problem. Denis *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys Limited, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please select the Legal Entities link at invensys.com. Invensys Limited is owned by the Schneider-Electric Group. You may contact Invensys Limited on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail recept...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any
Re: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?
Correct. Or maybe I just imagined I'd tried the reimporting first. It's such an obvious first step that I may have missed it. Sometimes, I'm just not as brilliant as others, you know? Happy Friday, all. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Combs, Richard (CW) richard.co...@polycom.com wrote: Oh, wait – I missed your previous message. So I’m guessing it’s reimporting that you tried unsuccessfully, and then it worked the second time. *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Combs, Richard (CW) *Sent:* Friday, February 27, 2015 10:57 AM *To:* Lin Sims *Cc:* Davis, David; framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement? Hmm. Then it made a liar out of the FM10 help, too. Maybe that “rasterization” language was left over from earlier releases… *From:* Lin Sims [mailto:ljsims...@gmail.com ljsims...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, February 27, 2015 10:16 AM *To:* Combs, Richard (CW) *Cc:* Davis, David; framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* Re: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement? And it's making a liar out of me. I just tried it again, and this time it worked. Honestly, sometimes it isn't even worth banging your head against a table. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: I tried that, too, actually. First thing I did, and I should have listed it. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Combs, Richard (CW) richard.co...@polycom.com wrote: If what the FM10 help says is correct, this is because FM10 apparently didn’t import the graphics in native SVG format (emphasis added): When importing a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG), the SVG Import dialog box allows the user to select the *rasterization* quality of the image. By increasing the rasterization quality, printed and PDF versions are crisper; however, increasing the rasterization also increases the file size of the image, and it takes longer to import it. FrameMaker prints Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images to PostScript printers by *rendering* the images as vector graphics using Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). For non-PostScript printers, FrameMaker uses the FrameImage format. If I’m interpreting this correctly, FM10 converted SVGs to raster (bitmapped) images on import. It rendered those bitmaps as vector graphics when outputting to a PostScript device (printer or PDF), but at that point the text is not text, just lines – vectors describing a sequence of dots. So the damage is done upon import, and nothing done subsequently can undo it. You have to reimport the original SVGs. My sympathies. *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Lin Sims *Sent:* Friday, February 27, 2015 6:22 AM *To:* Davis, David *Cc:* framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* Re: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement? Syed, Are these brand new files created by FM12, or are these files you converted from an earlier version? I ask because I've discovered that (at least for me) the text-searchable SVG graphic bug, which is listed as fixed for FM12, is only fixed if you're talking about new documents. None of the documents I have that were converted from FM10 to FM12 will produce PDFs with text-searchable SVG graphics. All of the documents that are created in FM12 produce PDFs with searchable SVG graphics. So far I've determined that MIF-washing doesn't fix this, that you can't simply import the contents of the FM10 file into the FM12 file, and that you can't copy paste using the Frame Interchange Format. Copy pasting as Unicode text does work, but of course you then have to reapply all your formatting tags and recreate all your xrefs and conditionaled content. Oddly, you can copy and paste the tables in without causing an issue. Note that my company's workflow is to use unstructured FM with embedded graphics; I do not know if this applies to structured FM or XML files or referenced graphics. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Davis, David david.da...@non.schneider-electric.com wrote: If people have a problem with a specific bug, I really would recommend logging it in the Adobe bug tracker. When I logged my CMYK issue, there was already one other bug report in there for the same thing, and I did get a fix within about 3 months, which is a pretty good turnaround for a behemoth like FrameMaker! The more people log a bug. the higher a priority it will get with their dev team. David From: Denis Daly [d.d...@icpnewtech.com] Sent: 27 February 2015 08:56 To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); Davis, David; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement? Please keep us informed of your experiences with the CMYK issue Syed. I (along with many others) was hoping this latest update
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
And, just testing it, but Adobe Acrobat was not able to find text inside a graphic, which was a big reason why we upgraded. I'll have to look into that, but I bet you're right, Robert. I bet that's the cause. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: blink Shoot, you're right. Adobe finally fixed the SVG generation into PDF so that the SVG graphics are searchable again. Or so they say, I haven't actually tried to search for anything. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Maybe there's a change in how FrameMaker 12 handles SVGs when generating PDFs? Could the rasterization quality default have changed? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. All the images are SVGs that are copied into the file (yes, I know, but we're kinda stuck with that as part of the process). On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Are of the image compression options different? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. It's off by default. I had switched it on for one of the PDF generations, because I was hoping to use the import comments from PDF to Frame, but it turns out that really isn't as useful as I'd hoped, so the next time I created the PDF, I made sure it was off. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: If that happened to me, I'd still want to know where the bloat was coming from. PDFs larger than 10MB still present problems for me on occasion, and files becoming 4X larger without any additional data strongly suggests that a property setting was inappropriately changed in the upgrade or some new property setting is at an inappropriate default. The Generate Tagged PDF option didn't get switched on, did it? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Well, on the minus side, regenerating those files and trying all the tips y'all have so kindly provided has not reduced the file size appreciably. On the plus side, I've discovered that it is, in fact, possible to put the shared-review-enabled PDF onto the cloud storage site, where we have unlimited storage. The reviewers still have to download it locally, but they always had to do that. I no longer need to send it as an attachment to an email, so the situation has become the one Fred thought it was to begin with. :-) -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
blink Shoot, you're right. Adobe finally fixed the SVG generation into PDF so that the SVG graphics are searchable again. Or so they say, I haven't actually tried to search for anything. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Maybe there's a change in how FrameMaker 12 handles SVGs when generating PDFs? Could the rasterization quality default have changed? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. All the images are SVGs that are copied into the file (yes, I know, but we're kinda stuck with that as part of the process). On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Are of the image compression options different? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. It's off by default. I had switched it on for one of the PDF generations, because I was hoping to use the import comments from PDF to Frame, but it turns out that really isn't as useful as I'd hoped, so the next time I created the PDF, I made sure it was off. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: If that happened to me, I'd still want to know where the bloat was coming from. PDFs larger than 10MB still present problems for me on occasion, and files becoming 4X larger without any additional data strongly suggests that a property setting was inappropriately changed in the upgrade or some new property setting is at an inappropriate default. The Generate Tagged PDF option didn't get switched on, did it? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Well, on the minus side, regenerating those files and trying all the tips y'all have so kindly provided has not reduced the file size appreciably. On the plus side, I've discovered that it is, in fact, possible to put the shared-review-enabled PDF onto the cloud storage site, where we have unlimited storage. The reviewers still have to download it locally, but they always had to do that. I no longer need to send it as an attachment to an email, so the situation has become the one Fred thought it was to begin with. :-) -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
Well, on the minus side, regenerating those files and trying all the tips y'all have so kindly provided has not reduced the file size appreciably. On the plus side, I've discovered that it is, in fact, possible to put the shared-review-enabled PDF onto the cloud storage site, where we have unlimited storage. The reviewers still have to download it locally, but they always had to do that. I no longer need to send it as an attachment to an email, so the situation has become the one Fred thought it was to begin with. :-) On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Davis, David david.da...@non.schneider-electric.com wrote: Lin, As far as I recall, modern versions of Adobe Reader autogenerate the PDF bookmark pane and thumbnails on the fly if you ask them to, so if megabytes are really that tight for you, you could probably ditch them anyway? David Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:16:20 -0500 From: Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com To: David Boss bossc...@rogers.com Cc: Frame Users framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding Message-ID: ca+momch5u+scw8jkcxtcbgggyuayctdwazw9ucausnvcwwg...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Thanks for the tip. I tried removing everything but the metadata (which was only the doc title), but it only trimmed about 2Mb off and took the bookmarks with it. *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys Limited, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please select the Legal Entities link at invensys.com. Invensys Limited is owned by the Schneider-Electric Group. You may contact Invensys Limited on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail recept...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
Nope. All the images are SVGs that are copied into the file (yes, I know, but we're kinda stuck with that as part of the process). On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Are of the image compression options different? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. It's off by default. I had switched it on for one of the PDF generations, because I was hoping to use the import comments from PDF to Frame, but it turns out that really isn't as useful as I'd hoped, so the next time I created the PDF, I made sure it was off. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: If that happened to me, I'd still want to know where the bloat was coming from. PDFs larger than 10MB still present problems for me on occasion, and files becoming 4X larger without any additional data strongly suggests that a property setting was inappropriately changed in the upgrade or some new property setting is at an inappropriate default. The Generate Tagged PDF option didn't get switched on, did it? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Well, on the minus side, regenerating those files and trying all the tips y'all have so kindly provided has not reduced the file size appreciably. On the plus side, I've discovered that it is, in fact, possible to put the shared-review-enabled PDF onto the cloud storage site, where we have unlimited storage. The reviewers still have to download it locally, but they always had to do that. I no longer need to send it as an attachment to an email, so the situation has become the one Fred thought it was to begin with. :-) -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Automatic column widths on import of XML file
We've an internal perl script that sets up tables at a predefined table width with the columns at predefined widths, but I'm pretty sure those measurements are hard-coded into the script that creates the XML file from the Excel spreadsheet. It's doable if you know what sizes you're working with before you get started, including how many columns you need included. XML might let you set column widths as a percentage of page/screen width, but I don't think that's directly transferable to FM. Can perl handle calculations? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com wrote: Fei Min... FM won't auto-adjust table columns in any useful way. The only way I know of is to write a script or plugin to analyze the contents of the cells and do the width adjustment based on some predefined logic (widest graphic, or amount of text, etc.). Would love to hear I'm wrong .. but hot holding my breath. ...scott On 2/23/15 9:16 AM, Fei Min Lorente wrote: Hi folks: I found this discussion from 2008: https://forums.adobe.com/message/1279946#1279946, and this helpful answer from Russ Ward in 2010: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/577820?tstart=0, but I don’t see the solution that I’m looking for. My manager (a software development guy) would like to create an XML file that I can import into FrameMaker that doesn’t specify the width of each column. He’s taking output from Jira, and people can create tables in the Description field there, but he has no way of knowing how wide the columns are. He figures that if HTML can automatically size the columns to suit the contents, surely FrameMaker can do this too (I’m not so sure). I’ve tried it myself, and the column widths in the table template apply when you don’t specify widths in XML. If you have more columns than are in your template, it seems to use the width of the last templated column. And the tables might contain graphics as well as text. Anyone have any better ideas? I’m using FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7. I think my manager is using Perl or some other scripting language. Jira outputs HTML as well as some other text format. Fei Min Lorente Senior Technical Communicator Medical and Wireless Division feimin.lore...@onsemi.com +1 519-884-9696 ext. 2297 | Waterloo office +1 519-831-4931 | mobile +1 905-631-5724 | fax www.onsemi.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as s...@leximation.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email toframers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sp14%40leximation.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visithttp://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
Would a corrupt .joboptions file result in the sort of file size increase I saw? I just tried creating a PDF using the Standard option, and everything was fine. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: It does a bit, doesn't it? I've never really dug into Distiller, so I'm going to spend some time with the PDF Creation Settings manual and see if it sheds any light on the issue. This is the first job I've ever had that actually created a customized joboptions file. Always before, I picked Standard. However, the people controlling that sort of thing are no longer in control, so I'm free to explore a bit and see if there's something that works better. Especially since I suspect it hasn't been looked at in a long time. Would you believe, it was still set to be compatible with Acrobat 4.0? On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: That seems bizarre. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: FYI to all, I changed the image compression options from JPEG to off, since we only use either SVGs or PNGs in our documents. The file size dropped dramatically. As in, it's back to what I expected. -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
It does a bit, doesn't it? I've never really dug into Distiller, so I'm going to spend some time with the PDF Creation Settings manual and see if it sheds any light on the issue. This is the first job I've ever had that actually created a customized joboptions file. Always before, I picked Standard. However, the people controlling that sort of thing are no longer in control, so I'm free to explore a bit and see if there's something that works better. Especially since I suspect it hasn't been looked at in a long time. Would you believe, it was still set to be compatible with Acrobat 4.0? On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: That seems bizarre. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: FYI to all, I changed the image compression options from JPEG to off, since we only use either SVGs or PNGs in our documents. The file size dropped dramatically. As in, it's back to what I expected. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
And that's what it was. When I replaced the copy I had with a clean version, generated a PDF, then used the Save As Reduced size, it came out perfectly. Seriously, you'd think I'd be happier about solving the problem, but what a bloody piddly thing it turned out to be to take all that time to fix. Oh, well. Next problem ... On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Seems plausible. Inappropriate .joboptions settings can cause massive bloat. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Would a corrupt .joboptions file result in the sort of file size increase I saw? I just tried creating a PDF using the Standard option, and everything was fine. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: It does a bit, doesn't it? I've never really dug into Distiller, so I'm going to spend some time with the PDF Creation Settings manual and see if it sheds any light on the issue. This is the first job I've ever had that actually created a customized joboptions file. Always before, I picked Standard. However, the people controlling that sort of thing are no longer in control, so I'm free to explore a bit and see if there's something that works better. Especially since I suspect it hasn't been looked at in a long time. Would you believe, it was still set to be compatible with Acrobat 4.0? On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: That seems bizarre. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: FYI to all, I changed the image compression options from JPEG to off, since we only use either SVGs or PNGs in our documents. The file size dropped dramatically. As in, it's back to what I expected. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs
As I recall, Mif2Go should output pretty darn spiffy Word documents, although you may have to fiddle with it a bit to get what you want. Acrobat 10 (I think) and later will save PDFs to Word format, although everything will be in modified Normal (no style-name information is carried through, but the document WILL look the same as it does in PDF). Depending on what they want to do, that might be sufficient. Are the customers going to sign something legally binding that says, we edited it, so any mistakes are our responsibility? On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Kevin Ryan kevin.r...@systemsandsoftware.net wrote: Hi, I could use the advice of some Frame veterans on whether a switch from Frame to Flare might be a delusion-inspired wrong turn for me, or possibly the right way to go. My company's primary documentation output is PDF user/training/reference guides authored on FrameMaker 7. Not the current Frame version, I know, but sufficient with our good templates to produce solid, professional-looking documents we're proud of. Other current deliverables include context-sensitive HTML topics produced via Mif2go and a limited number of Process Assistance MS Word topics. These latter are a sort of MS-Word help equivalent that our customers can download from our application, edit if necessary, and even upload back into our application for others if they want to. I create Process Assistance MS-Word topics by cutting from Frame and pasting into Word, followed by manual reformatting (ouch). Our customers (utilities) have been requesting another MS Word output: Editable MS Word versions of our 20-300 page PDF manuals so that they can edit them for their own purposes (such as internal training). Unfortunately, we've been unable to find a workable Frame-to-Word conversion process to this end. I can do manual reformatting to Word in our short Process Assistance topics, but to do it on entire manuals would give me a nervous breakdown. So, with better MS-Word output generation as my primary goal, I've been considering a switch to Flare. Its capability to output in PDF, Word, and HTML seems as though it might ultimately streamline our processes. As I test Flare by my 30-day trial, though, I'm reminded of the many things FrameMaker does really well — things I might be losing if I made the switch: For example, precise page layouts, complex graphics, robust tables. To its credit, Flare seems to offer output versatility, excellent documentation and support, and a lot of Marketing momentum. Am I misguiding myself? Barking up the wrong tree? Thanks for any opinions or comments. *Kevin Ryan* *Technical Writer* [image: cid:image001.jpg@01C97FA7.A9E51B40] Systems Software, Inc. 426 Industrial Avenue Suite 140 Williston, VT 05495 802.865.1170 phone 802.865.1171 fax -- *Save the Date! 2015 Harris Customer Training Conference:* http://www1.harriscomputer.com/en/conference/ October 21–23, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia - Atlanta Marriott Marquis. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Acrobat: Need to delete Shared Review profile
You know how, when you set up a shared review and specify that you want to use your own server to collect comments, it let's you save all your choices to a named profile? I've got a few obsolete ones, but I can't find anyway to delete them. I really need to, as having them is a trifle confusing. IS there a way? I've searched Acrobat help and used Google, but I can't find anything that addresses this. Which means I'm either using the wrong terms, or it isn't possible without a reinstall, which would be just UGLY. Thanks, -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding
FYI to all, I changed the image compression options from JPEG to off, since we only use either SVGs or PNGs in our documents. The file size dropped dramatically. As in, it's back to what I expected. Now if I can just get the text within the SVG graphics to be searchable (a major reason for the upgrade), I'll be happy. I'm already in touch with Kapil about that. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: And, just testing it, but Adobe Acrobat was not able to find text inside a graphic, which was a big reason why we upgraded. I'll have to look into that, but I bet you're right, Robert. I bet that's the cause. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: blink Shoot, you're right. Adobe finally fixed the SVG generation into PDF so that the SVG graphics are searchable again. Or so they say, I haven't actually tried to search for anything. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Maybe there's a change in how FrameMaker 12 handles SVGs when generating PDFs? Could the rasterization quality default have changed? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. All the images are SVGs that are copied into the file (yes, I know, but we're kinda stuck with that as part of the process). On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Are of the image compression options different? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. It's off by default. I had switched it on for one of the PDF generations, because I was hoping to use the import comments from PDF to Frame, but it turns out that really isn't as useful as I'd hoped, so the next time I created the PDF, I made sure it was off. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: If that happened to me, I'd still want to know where the bloat was coming from. PDFs larger than 10MB still present problems for me on occasion, and files becoming 4X larger without any additional data strongly suggests that a property setting was inappropriately changed in the upgrade or some new property setting is at an inappropriate default. The Generate Tagged PDF option didn't get switched on, did it? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Well, on the minus side, regenerating those files and trying all the tips y'all have so kindly provided has not reduced the file size appreciably. On the plus side, I've discovered that it is, in fact, possible to put the shared-review-enabled PDF onto the cloud storage site, where we have unlimited storage. The reviewers still have to download it locally, but they always had to do that. I no longer need to send it as an attachment to an email, so the situation has become the one Fred thought it was to begin with. :-) -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Acrobat: Need to delete Shared Review profile
Thanks Monique. That worked PERFECTLY. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Monique Semp monique.s...@earthlink.net wrote: Yes, I'd found this recently by googling, acrobat delete shared review profile: http://blogs.adobe.com/thesamepage/2009/01/modifying_ shared_review_locati.html. These instructions are for Acrobat 9, but they carried through for my Acrobat Pro XI, and I imagine they'd be similar for any version. -Monique -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Equation Palette: What are all the buttons?
I've used the Equation editor a fair bit to create equations (not for evaluation), but there are buttons there I can't figure out that I suspect might be useful if I just knew what they were. However, even the help files don't have anything that says this button does this/has this effect. I'm snooping through the install directory and using google, but if anyone has pointers to documentation for it, I'd appreciate the shortcut. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: removing space at the end of line
THAT is useful, and I'm going to put it in my how-to file immediately. Thanks to you and Rick. I learn a lot on this list. On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks to Rick Quatro's excellent webinar on regular expression search and replace some time back I was able to construct the following reg exp search in FM 12 to remove a space occurring at the end of a line right before the end of paragraph marker. I've been using for it for awhile. I'm sure others have constructed something similar, but for those of you who don't want to mess around and experiment: Find: (?=.) (?=\x0a) Replace with nothing. Of course, the Regular Expressions option has to be checked in the Find/Replace dialog. Earlier versions of FrameMaker would allow you to replace a space followed by an end of paragraph, but you had to replace with the paragraph marker. That would result in your paragraph being formatted with the tag of the following paragraph which was often not what you wanted. Hope this is useful to someone out there. I find that Word conversions often suffer from these extra spaces. Thank you. Craig ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Equation Palette: What are all the buttons?
Thanks, but I've already read that. Let me give you an example of what I'm looking for. On the Operators tab, there are three different buttons showing a large ? with a smaller one up and to the right. At least one of these is a superscript and one is an exponent. I've no idea what the third one is, and I don't know which button is which. I'd like to. So what I essentially am hoping for is something like a graphic that labels each button with a number (so I know which one is being referred to in case of buttons that look a LOT alike) and a callout table defining each one. There's nothing like it in the FrameMaker Help file. I could swear that years ago there was a separate book dealing with the equation editor, but damned if I can find it. On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote: There's an entire section in the downloadable Help PDF (pp. 163-213 using the numbers at the bottom of the page; pp. 197-247 of the actual PDF). This is from the 964 page PDF dated 1/19/2015 at the bottom of the cover sheet. Craig -- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:35:43 -0400 Subject: Equation Palette: What are all the buttons? From: ljsims...@gmail.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com I've used the Equation editor a fair bit to create equations (not for evaluation), but there are buttons there I can't figure out that I suspect might be useful if I just knew what they were. However, even the help files don't have anything that says this button does this/has this effect. I'm snooping through the install directory and using google, but if anyone has pointers to documentation for it, I'd appreciate the shortcut. -- Lin Sims ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as craig...@hotmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/craigede%40hotmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: What FM plugin suite give the most bang?
. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Frame 11 license becomes trial license
If they were solved, they wouldn't be mysteries, would they? crunchy frog, anyone? On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:01 AM, michael.schwa...@teradyne.com wrote: Thanks to all who replied. For some reason, Frame lost my serial number. I found it (the number had changed from the one I had saved), and entered it, and everything works again. I still don't know what caused the problem. But some mysteries weren't meant to be solved. Thanks. Michael ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FrameMaker Bug: inability to add a table after a table footnote.
Roman, it still sounds like you're trying to insert a table into a footnote. Is your cursor still in the footnote when you insert the new line and apply Body to it? If so, you're still in the table footnote even though it doesn't look like it. You have to put your cursor on the same line as the table anchor and then create the new line. On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Roman Banks banks_ro...@yahoo.com wrote: To reproduce: 1. In an existing table, put your cursor in one of the cells. 2. Click Special -- Footnote. The table footnote appears right after the table. 3. Create a new line and apply the Body pgf style to this line. 4. Try to insert a new table... Regards, Roman On Thursday, May 14, 2015 3:52 PM, Roman Banks banks_ro...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Rick, Thank you for your response! I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't going to add a table to a footnote. I was going to add a table after a *table footnote* that appears right under the preceding table. So even if I apply the Body pgf tag to the new line, I can't add a table on this line. Regards, Roman On Thursday, May 14, 2015 3:39 PM, Rick Quatro r...@rickquatro.com wrote: Hi Roman, Footnotes have their own flow and you can't add a table to footnotes, but you can add a table to the main flow after the footnote. I just tried it with FM 12. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-366-4017 r...@frameexpert.com *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Roman Banks *Sent:* Thursday, May 14, 2015 7:28 AM *To:* Framers *Subject:* FrameMaker Bug: inability to add a table after a table footnote. Hello fellows, I've just reproduced this issue both in FM10 and in FM12. The Insert Table option under the Table menu is grayed out if you try to add a table on a new line after a table footnote. Have you ever encountered this issue? Regards, Roman ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FrameMaker Bug: inability to add a table after a table footnote.
I am unable to reproduce the error as described. Is it possible you're actually trying to insert the table into a new line in the footnote, rather than the line after the table anchor? On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Roman Banks banks_ro...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello fellows, I've just reproduced this issue both in FM10 and in FM12. The Insert Table option under the Table menu is grayed out if you try to add a table on a new line after a table footnote. Have you ever encountered this issue? Regards, Roman ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FrameMaker Bug: inability to add a table after a table footnote.
Rick, We have to stop meeting like this. laughing On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Roman, it still sounds like you're trying to insert a table into a footnote. Is your cursor still in the footnote when you insert the new line and apply Body to it? If so, you're still in the table footnote even though it doesn't look like it. You have to put your cursor on the same line as the table anchor and then create the new line. On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Roman Banks banks_ro...@yahoo.com wrote: To reproduce: 1. In an existing table, put your cursor in one of the cells. 2. Click Special -- Footnote. The table footnote appears right after the table. 3. Create a new line and apply the Body pgf style to this line. 4. Try to insert a new table... Regards, Roman On Thursday, May 14, 2015 3:52 PM, Roman Banks banks_ro...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Rick, Thank you for your response! I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't going to add a table to a footnote. I was going to add a table after a *table footnote* that appears right under the preceding table. So even if I apply the Body pgf tag to the new line, I can't add a table on this line. Regards, Roman On Thursday, May 14, 2015 3:39 PM, Rick Quatro r...@rickquatro.com wrote: Hi Roman, Footnotes have their own flow and you can't add a table to footnotes, but you can add a table to the main flow after the footnote. I just tried it with FM 12. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-366-4017 r...@frameexpert.com *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Roman Banks *Sent:* Thursday, May 14, 2015 7:28 AM *To:* Framers *Subject:* FrameMaker Bug: inability to add a table after a table footnote. Hello fellows, I've just reproduced this issue both in FM10 and in FM12. The Insert Table option under the Table menu is grayed out if you try to add a table on a new line after a table footnote. Have you ever encountered this issue? Regards, Roman ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Setting up page numbers that restart with chapter number
If you can afford about $50 and can read Kindle books, Amazon has Adobe Classroom in a Book for Frame11. I've heard good things about that series, although I haven't used it myself. http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-FrameMaker-11-Classroom-Book-ebook/dp/B00AVWL9I4/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-textie=UTF8qid=1432150815sr=1-5 On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Linda Garneau linda.garn...@crossmatch.com wrote: Today I attempted the exercise to set up a variable for page numbering that restarts with each chapter number (1-1, 1-2, 1-3…2-1, 2-2, 2-3, etc.). I checked pages 355 and 356 in Matt Sullivan’s book, Unstructured FrameMaker 11. On p. 355 after step 7 it says to see those sections for details. Where are those sections?? I checked the index and couldn’t find it. Agghh!! I also ran through David Rivers’ tutorial on Lynda.com, but he only provided the basics for setting up master pages with page number (p. 1, 2, 3, etc.). I haven’t tried Google help yet, and not sure how to find this topic in the forum. My company does not want to pay for me to take a 3-day Framemaker class, and so I am on my own to learn this tool and figure everything out. Can any of you point me to: Framemaker training that doesn’t cost more than $600 that can teach me both a thorough run of the basics and more advanced tasks like this? Web tutorials that address this topic? A simple, clear set of instructions on how to set up page numbering that restarts with each chapter number without corrupting the document? I’ll take any advice you can spare—thanks so much!! J Linda *Linda Garneau* Technical Publications Manager 1-561-622-4795 linda.garn...@crossmatch.com This message, including any attachments, may contain confidential, proprietary, inside and/or legally privileged information. Any distribution or use of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying to this message and then permanently delete it from your system. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Cross Match Technologies, Inc.® , DigitalPersona® and the DigitalPersona logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cross Match Technologies, Inc and DigitalPersona, Inc. in the United States and other countries. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Book Save-As PDF w/ multiple page sizes - Follow-Up
Hey Charles, What we do here if we have odd-sized or even just rotated pages is put them in separate files from the regular pages. So a single chapter can actually consist of multiple files, in order, for each change in size or orientation. All you have to do is make sure that the numbering is set to Use same chapter number as previous file, and Save As PDF works fine. You might be able to get the same effect by turning them into a section, but I haven't used that so I can't really say. Of course, setting up in multiple files can be a small nuisance. On the other hand, you don't have to worry about reapplying master pages if the amount of information you have changes. On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Charles Richardson c...@matrixpress.com wrote: There have been several responses to my original post. Here is my take-away summary: As I stated in the original post, Save-As PDF works perfectly for me as long as all pages are same size. Books with dozens of bookmarks and thousands of links come out just fine. BTW, I am using MicroType TimeSavers to manage special bookmarks. Like David Artman, who responded that he would never use Save-As PDF, I too avoided it entirely until very recently when Shlomo Perets encouraged me to use it in response to another post. My prior reluctance went back to Dov Isaacs’ posts several FM releases ago when, as an Adobe respondent, he said that the Save-As function had significant issues. I tested the suggestion from Craig Ede (put a tabloid page first) with the result that all pages in the PDF were tabloid. Fred Ridder suggested making changes in the print window via a possible selection that detected page size automatically. This is, in fact, the result I get by default if I do a print to .ps, i.e., the PDF virtual printer or Distiller DOES detect page size automatically. That is the process I’ve been using from the beginning. I don’t know how to make this happen with the Save-As method, which is why I posted today. Only a few of the 30-some print books I use to publish an 8,000 page document have tabloid pages. Barring some further response that provides a workable methodology, I will continue to publish those books that have mixed-size pages in the traditional print to .ps + Distiller as I had been doing exclusively until quite recently. Why continue to use the Save-As method? Why not just keep the process I’ve always had? Well, for one thing, when I have to produce the entire document (over 30 books), it is much faster and simpler to use the Save-As PDF. As always, thanks to those who have responded. If I discover a solution to the original issue, I will post an update. Charles *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Charles Richardson *Sent:* Monday, June 08, 2015 10:36 AM *To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* Book Save-As PDF w/ multiple page sizes Unable to find answer in FM docs. How does one configure FM to do Save-As PDF with the correct output page sizes (e.g., book with mixed letter/tabloid pages) in PDF? This is not a problem if a book print setup is set to tabloid and printed to .ps then distilled; the output reflects the original page sizes. With Save-As, if the page size is set to tabloid, all the pages in the output will be tabloid. I can get only one size or the other. FM12 (unstructured)/Acrobat IX Adobe PDF Converter/W7 Thanks for your help! Charles ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM12 Crashes on File Open - Need Answer FAST
This file opens fine in Frame 10. It opens fine in Frame 12 IF it is a MIF file. As soon as I save the file from MIF10 to FM in Frame12, close it and reopen it, the program crashes again. I am, of course, on multiple deadlines, and yes, I do need this file to work in Frame12. HELP! -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Purchase question
You can still buy it at Adobe, they just make it hard to find. https://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/software._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_allsoftware.html?start=50 Keep clicking next at the bottom until you see FrameMaker (for me it was page 5), then click Buy. The full version (FrameMaker 2015) is $999.00. There's no option to buy earlier versions. If you need other Adobe products, you might look into the Technical Communications suite (for me, that was page 6), which runs $1,199 as an upgrade for you (yes, you can get it at the upgrade price). That includes Frame, RoboHelp, Captivate, Acrobat Pro DC, and Presenter. Good luck, On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Bertrand Meyer bertrand.me...@inf.ethz.ch wrote: This is a newbie question; on the technical side I am not a FrameMaker newbie, having used it for several decades, but I am not familiar with recent versions since I have stuck to old ones which do what I need, on Solaris and Windows. With recent releases of Windows, however, FrameMaker 7.2, which I still use, crashes increasingly often (for example just using the mouse to select text that includes a table invariably causes a crash). That’s not sustainable so I need to upgrade. For the most recent version all I saw on Adobe’s page is a software-for-rent solution, which is not acceptable. Could someone please recommend a version that is the most recent possible, is available for purchase, works reliably on recent versions of Windows (Windows 8.1, soon Windows 10), will take older *.fm files, generate MIF, and retain the traditional FrameMaker advantages? Thanks in advance, -- Bertrand Meyer ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12 Crashes on File Open - Need Answer FAST
The weird thing? If I open the SAME FILE from my local hard drive in FM12, it's happy as a clam.The only time it crashes is if I open it from the server, and it's not that big a file (40 pages). I've deleted the problem graphic (an SVG generated by Visio 2013) and recreated a new SVG from Visio. Importing it and resaving as FM12 seems to have fixed the issue. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Stuart Rogers srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com wrote: Try saving as .mif v.12 before reopening/saving as .fm v. 12? On 2015-Jun-19 10:16 AM, Lin Sims wrote: This file opens fine in Frame 10. It opens fine in Frame 12 IF it is a MIF file. As soon as I save the file from MIF10 to FM in Frame12, close it and reopen it, the program crashes again. I am, of course, on multiple deadlines, and yes, I do need this file to work in Frame12. HELP! -- Lin Sims ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email toframers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/srogers%40phoenix-geophysics.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visithttp://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12 Crashes on File Open - Need Answer FAST
I used the divide and conquer method and tracked it down to a particular graphic. Thanks all for the help offered! On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Try saving as .fm in FM10 and opening that in FM12. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: This file opens fine in Frame 10. It opens fine in Frame 12 IF it is a MIF file. As soon as I save the file from MIF10 to FM in Frame12, close it and reopen it, the program crashes again. I am, of course, on multiple deadlines, and yes, I do need this file to work in Frame12. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ljsims...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM12 Crashes on File Open - Need Answer FAST
Hi Stephen, As I said in an earlier email, I tracked the issue down to a specific graphic. This was an embedded SVG that had been created by an older version of Visio, which sometimes did not perform clean conversions. Opening the source in Visio 2013 and reexporting to SVG, then replacing the bad graphic with the new SVG, solved the issue. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Stephen O'Brien sobr...@innovmetric.com wrote: Hi, Opening from different locations with different results seems to point to a problem with unavailable or corrupt paths. Can you deactivate the graphics in FM (View Options Graphics) and then try to open the document ? *Stephen O'BRIEN* Coordonnateur de la qualité documentaire et rédacteur technique senior | Quality Coordinator for Documentation and Senior Technical Writer InnovMetric Logiciels | Software *T *(1) 418.688.2061 *De :* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *De la part de* Lin Sims *Envoyé :* Friday, June 19, 2015 11:07 AM *À :* Stuart Rogers *Cc :* Frame Users *Objet :* Re: FM12 Crashes on File Open - Need Answer FAST The weird thing? If I open the SAME FILE from my local hard drive in FM12, it's happy as a clam.The only time it crashes is if I open it from the server, and it's not that big a file (40 pages). I've deleted the problem graphic (an SVG generated by Visio 2013) and recreated a new SVG from Visio. Importing it and resaving as FM12 seems to have fixed the issue. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Stuart Rogers srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com wrote: Try saving as .mif v.12 before reopening/saving as .fm v. 12? On 2015-Jun-19 10:16 AM, Lin Sims wrote: This file opens fine in Frame 10. It opens fine in Frame 12 IF it is a MIF file. As soon as I save the file from MIF10 to FM in Frame12, close it and reopen it, the program crashes again. I am, of course, on multiple deadlines, and yes, I do need this file to work in Frame12. HELP! -- Lin Sims ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/srogers%40phoenix-geophysics.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com -- Lin Sims -- Lin Sims ___ 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 to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: [Framers] Has anyone received Adobe email "Just Launched: Adobe Tech Comm Product Survey 2015!"?
Yeah, I got it too. Maybe they meant to send the announcement of who won? On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Simon BUCH <simon.b...@m-ais.com> wrote: > Dear Framers, > > I was looking through my mailbox, when I happened to receive an email > entitled "Just Launched: Adobe Tech Comm Product Survey 2015!", from > techc...@adobemailers.com at Tue, 12 Jan 2016 02:35:07 +0530. Due to the > timezone and IP address of the email thread, I suspect this was sent from > India. > > Has anyone received the same product survey? > Was Adobe meaning to send it? > > Regards > // Simon BUCH -- M-AIS > > ___ > This message is from the Framers mailing list > Send messages to Framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.frameusers.com > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/listinfo/framers_lists.frameusers.com > -- Lin Sims ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to Framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.frameusers.com Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/listinfo/framers_lists.frameusers.com
[Framers] Equations: convert between sizes?
I've been given a short Frame document with about 6 equations in the medium equation formatting. Is there an easy way to change them to the small equation formatting, or am I stuck recreating them? I think I'll investigate the MIF and see what's to be seen. -- Lin Sims ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Equations: convert between sizes?
Hah! Changing MathSize MathMedium to MathSize MathSmall in the MIF file worked! On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been given a short Frame document with about 6 equations in the > medium equation formatting. Is there an easy way to change them to the > small equation formatting, or am I stuck recreating them? > > I think I'll investigate the MIF and see what's to be seen. > > -- > Lin Sims > -- Lin Sims ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] CudSpan's HuntOverrides - w/FrameMaker 2015 (FrameMaker 13) ?
Frame can search for character and paragraph format overrides now, so maybe he didn't feel it was necessary to update? On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Monique Semp <monique.s...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Has anyone used CudSpan’s Hunt (Pgf) Overrides with FrameMaker 2015 > (FrameMaker 13)? On the CudSpan Plug-Ins page, it lists only up to > FrameMaker 11. It’s seems that my old version (back many years ago) is > working fine, but I don’t know if it’s missing anything or having some sort > of unintended consequence? > > -Monique > ___ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com -- Lin Sims ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] import xml into FrameMaker 12?
DITA-FMx is an excellent plugin that will let you convert the XML into structured Frame. Scott is on the list and is very, very helpful. On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Studio Smalbro <stu...@smalbro.dk> wrote: > I have a customer asking me to convert and publish xml files into > FrameMaker 12. I usually do a lot of stuff in FrameMaker Unstructured (I > have the Technical Communication Suites), but my knowledge of structured > publish is less solid. I would like to be able to help my customer out on > this. Is there a good introduction as to how to get started using > structured FrameMaker? Or can anybody offer advice as to how to handle the > xml files. > > Best regards > Bjørn > > ___ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > -- Lin Sims ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Filter error message?
I'm getting the following error message when opening files that have been moved from one directory to another. "At least one original filter used for graphics imported by reference is not available, or the imported file's format has changed. An alternative filter may be used if the file is recognized as a graphic Framemaker can import." Note that relative image location has changed as a result of the move. However, I relinked all the images I wanted to retain and told FM to skip the ones that I knew were likely to be replaced. FM shows them as grey boxes right now. Any ideas on what might be causing this? It doesn't seem to have any effect on the files, so knowing is not critical, but I am curious. Perts: Windows XP, SP3 FM 8.0277 Dell Inspiron, Intel Quadcore Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 3.25GB of RAM Thanks. -- Lin Sims
Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Nancy Allison wrote: > I see so many things I could make so much better if I had the time and the > right tools, but alas, it is not to be. > > But wait! Jeremy wrote: > >> If the client is merely trying to save money by using a >> "free" tool, we'll *give* her a copy of Mif2Go. Nobody >> should have to go through that process to keep a job... > > Jeremy, do you really mean it? I would be thrilled. I think I could convince > them to accept it. I think. He means it. Jeremy is one of the most stand-up guys you could ever hope to meet. -- Lin Sims
Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Eva Whitley wrote: > Well, after literally hours of work, I've managed to trace the problem > to a bad second level heading that was causing the re-set. However, > fixing it meant trying to re-do the autonumbering on the headings, and I > just can't figure out how to structure the headings so Heading 1.1 in > Section 2 re-sets as 1.1, not as 4.1 (there are three headings at that > level in the first Section). I've asked my boss for the assistance of > someone who has had FrameMaker training to try to fix the problem but I > accept that it's beyond me. > > I also made a case for getting some training at our departmental meeting > today, so we'll see what develops there. > > I can't send the document out (in contains passwords) but I may be able > to send our template out if anyone wants to see how the document is sent > up now. > > Again, thanks for the help. Maybe someday I'll get training and be able > to help another newbie! > What helped me when I had more complicated numbering strings was to set up a spreadsheet. The first column contains the tags that need to be included in the numbering series. The first row contained a description of what the number was for. You plug the numbering blocks into the cells, and it's pretty easy to track when a reset needs to occur and the like. Remember when using a numbering string to provide it with a series tag (e.g., "H:" for headings) and to have the same number of blocks in each tag's string. That is, if your Heading1 is "1." and Heading2 is "1.1" and resets after each Heading1, then BOTH tags should contain 2 blocks. For example: Heading1 numbering string is
Book to .mif plugin
And let's not forget Bruce Foster's MifSave plugin, which is only $10. http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/products.htm (Not affiliated with Bruce, I just love his plugins.) > Mike Wickham wrote: >>> I am sure there must be a utility which saves all files in a book to >>> .mif files. Do you know where I can get such a plugin? > _______ -- Lin Sims
Zapf Dingbats mystery
As I recall, I had the same problem with that until I actually copied the old Dingbats.pfm/pfb font files from my home computer to the windows\fonts folder on my work machine. Prior to invoking the sneaker net, I was able to see the symbol I selected in FM documents when I was at home, but couldn't at work. In both cases, the machines are Windows XP, SP3, with FM 8.277. I can probably send you a zip of those files if you want. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote: > I raised the ATM issue with Brian... > >>Thanks for persevering. ? Update to info below. >> >>I have just uninstalled ATM and restarted PC & App but it has made no >>difference. I am using Adobe Acrobat 3D v7.0.7. ? My new PC has Win XP Pro >>SP2. All programs have been clean installed and fonts reinstalled. >> >>I do not think FM7.1 is seeing the symbol/zapfdingbat fonts even though >>it is listing them. I have just added some symbols using ANSI code and it >>works OK on Standard Character Set but gives either nothing or the wrong >>symbol when it comes from the Symbol and Dingbat Sets. >> >>Having read the comments below re Open Type I am beginning to wonder if >>it is loss of functionality in FM7 that was restored in later versions. >>What do you and your gurus think? > > [I have replied that my FrameMaker installation, 7.0p577 for Mac, has no > problems with OpenType fonts.] > >>If this is indeed the case, I will have to put a case forward to our >>management as we are using FM7 as the global standard and most of our >>legacy manuals & templates use zapfdingbats/symbols. >> >>Other than in the Designer, is there anywhere else in Fm that can alter >>where the program looks for fonts? > > -- > Steve -- Lin Sims
Zapf Dingbats mystery
Whoops. You're right. Sorry, Steve. :( On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Combs, Richard wrote: > Please be aware that Zapf Dingbats is a copyrighted work that may not > simply be passed around freely. > >> -Original Message- >> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- >> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby >> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:14 AM >> To: Lin Sims >> Cc: framers at frameusers.com >> Subject: Re: Zapf Dingbats mystery >> >> Hi Lin >> >> >As I recall, I had the same problem with that until I actually copied >> >the old Dingbats.pfm/pfb font files from my home computer to the >> >windows\fonts folder on my work machine. Prior to invoking the > sneaker >> >net, I was able to see the symbol I selected in FM documents when I >> >was at home, but couldn't at work. In both cases, the machines are >> >Windows XP, SP3, with FM 8.277. >> > >> >I can probably send you a zip of those files if you want. >> >> Thanks for this: passed to Brian (the guy who actually has the > problem) >> >> -- >> Steve >> ___ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to Framers as richard.combs at polycom.com. >> >> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >> or visit >> > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/richard.combs%40poly > com >> .com >> >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- Lin Sims
How can I search for bold text and change it to a character style?
(Sorry if this is 2 days after the question, but I've been on vacation.) You can also get Rick Quattro's Find/Change Special plugin, which can search for a character style and replace it with another character style (amongst other things). On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: > > Responding to Avi's question, Art Campbell wrote: > >> Create a character style with the correct attributes. >> Apply it to something. >> Copy Special > Character Style. >> Find, specifying the bold text, and replace by pasting. > > Note that the Copy Special is Character *Format* rather than > Character *Style*, and that's actually an important distinction. > When you use Copy Special, FrameMaker copies all of the current > selections font format characteristics, including the explicit font > and size settings as well as the character tag that you really > want to propagate. If you copy the format from a chunk of > body text (for example, 11 pt TNR bold with the Bold character > tag applied) and then paste onto a selection in a heading (say > 14 pt Helvetica non-bold), you will get a chunk of 11 pt TNR > in the middle of that heading.
New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and newAdobeeLearningSuite
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mike Wickham wrote: > Yes. I just went back and looked at the online video. They are calling it > "PDF shared review," but there is not one word of mention of it in the FM9 > user guide, nor of the File> Save as PDF (Send For Review) menu item in FM9. > I can see in my existing Acrobat 9 Pro an option to Send for Shared Review, > so it's clear that I can send a PDF for review, and get back the changes, > but not clear if the standalone version of FM9 can import the changes > directly into FM9-- or if that's a feature available only in the TCS version > of FM9. > > Mike Wickham According to the Adobe web site listing the new features of FM9, it can. http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/features/?view=topnew -- Lin Sims
OT: Heading levels in a UG
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Evanth, Henrik wrote: > Hi All > > I have an off-topic question that may or may not interest you. > > We are having a discussion at the office regarding the maximum levels of > heading that a User guide/User manual can/should contain. Do you know of any > best practice rules that define how deep a publication should/could be. > Personally I think that 6 levels is too deep for a user, but that is just a > personal preference that I cannot back up with "evidence". > > Heading 1 > ? Heading 2 > ? ? ?Heading 3 > ? ? ? ? Heading 4 > ? ? ? ? ? ?Heading 5 > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Heading 6 > > Insights, comments or instructions are highly appreciated. I attended an Edward Tufte seminar a number of years ago. He does book signings at these, and while he was signing my copies he asked my profession. When I said "technical writer", his response was "No more than 3 levels of headings." -- Lin Sims
OT: Heading levels in a UG
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Peter Gold wrote: > I guess Tufte didn't verbally indicate "*" and "" with his comment. > His methods of providing multiple layers of information - sparklines, > common measurement references across graphics that vary in scale, and > various graphic schemes that indicate data and information > relationships - present much of the additional levels of information, > without additional heading levels. IOW, "organizational problem" > solutions. He was pretty heads down at the time. There was a long line of people eager for him to sign their copies. From the way he said it, though, and other things he said during the seminar, I'm fairly sure that he meant no more than three heading levels in text. I've got to dig out those books. They've been packed since I moved almost 3 years ago, now, and I wants 'em. -- Lin Sims
Open cross-reference in new window
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jo Watkiss wrote: > Hi Rick, > > This works OK for links to a separate file, but not to links in the same > file. > > Is there anything I can do in the Frame file to force cross reference to > open in a new link? > > Unfortunately we also have incredibly inept readers and asking them to > change their preferences is unrealistic. > > Jo. Microtype's FrameMaker-to-Acrobat Timesavers has a function that will do that. It is not a free plugin, though. I believe that the way to do this is to insert a Postscript code frame on a master page, but you have to know the postscript code that forces the link to open in a new window, and I don't know that. Hope that at least points you in the right direction. Lin Sims
New Topic 1 _ Title out of aliignment
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Susan Curtzwiler wrote: > Hi All, > ? Using FM 7.0, Acrobat Distiller 5.0, Vista Enterprise > > ? Please see attachment, why is this title not on the left margin? > > ? I have continued to look for spacing or other marks, but I can't find > anything. > > ?Any comments? > > Thanks, > ?Sue FYI, the list software strips attachments. Off the top of my head, I'd check the Paragraph Tag and make sure the following is true: * Alignment -- Left * First -- 0" * Left -- 0" You may also want to check the Master page and see if you have Sideheads set up. Hope that helps. -- Lin Sims
Unexpected message when saving book file after changing conditional view
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Jeff Schweiner wrote: > I'm getting an unexpected message when working on FM books that uses > conditional tags. ?The message is listed below. The filename reported in > the message (chiaTp_cover.fm in the example below) is always the first > file in the book, all other files are saved without a message. > > "File C:\Documents and > Settings\schween\Desktop\chiaTp\Sections\chiaTp_cover.fm has changed on > the disk since you last opened or saved it. ?Someone else has probably > modified the file. ?Do you want to save it anyway?" > > The message is generated as follows: > > 1. Open the book file. > 2. Open all files in the book (using Shift key + File -> Open All Files > in Book). > 3. In the book window, select all files in the book, then change the > conditional view (using View -> Show/Hide Conditional Text). > 4. I then save all the files in the book (using Shift key + File -> Save > All Files in Book) and get the message for only the first file in the > book. > 5. I click OK in the message window. ?A GIF image on the cover master > page turns into a gray box, everything else seems fine. ?I put the GIF > in an anchored frame, that solved the gray image problem. ?But I still > get the message every time I change the conditional view and save the > files. > The same thing happens to me. As far as I can tell, if you're the only person working on the files, you can ignore the message. I'm not sure how to prevent it, though. Even if it is preventable, it may not be wise to. -- Lin Sims
