FM9 PDF output

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Hi All from a newbie I've just migrated fom FM7.1 to 9.0.2. I'm trying to output a doc containing a mixture of portrait and landscape pages. In FM7 I used Save Book As PDF and got perfect results, complete with bookmmarks. FM9 produces a PDF with

FM9 and two monitors

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I've just upped from 7 to 9, and just about got to grips with the new interface. There's a lot of nice things that were on my wishlist, and on the whole I like it. Still lots to learn, though (even having used FM for something like 15 years in both Win

Text inset (FM9)

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I don't know if this is a bug but I can't find anything about it anywhere else. I have a number of docs with text insets. When I do an update, an extra carriage return is added at the end of the inset which duplicates the paratag of the first line of

Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Amongst other things, the Apply Master Pages thingy is great when you have a mixture of portrait and landscape pages - makes it simple to ensure they all stay the right way round. Saved me shedloads of hassle. Other stuff: spreading it across multiple

RE: Xrefs in text insets (FM9)

- From: Diane Gaskill [mailto:dgcal...@earthlink.net] Sent: 20 October 2009 04:42 To: Milton, Cynthia; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Xrefs in text insets (FM9) Hi Cynthia, You are not doing anything wrong. We had the same problem. The reason that the links do not work

Re: Import external file by reference

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I use a different approach to this question. All my docs are provided to the users as PDFs. Where they refer out to other docs I use hyperlinks and open the referred-to docs in a new window (sometimes PDF, sometimes Excel spreadsheet, etc.) It helps that

FM9 + WinXP Pro: Object Properties?

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Sounds odd. All works for me OK. Exactly the same setup, BTW. However, it's occurred to me that the Object Properties pod may be trying to appear off-screen - I have mine set up so the main FM9 window is on my big screen and all the pods and stuff stay

Revision histories - xrefs

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I try to use x-refs where possible for these. That way they still point to the appropriate place in the doc when other stuff has been added/moved/deleted. And when something's been deleted I just convert the x-ref to text. Bit untidy, but satisfies the

RE: FrameMaker 9 Repeatable Hard Crash

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Does the same in XP/FM9p250 unstructured, although I found that ending one of the FM processes in Task Manager zapped the second instance as well, and CPU usage died down immediately. However, one has to ask why one would want to import formats from

hypertext command message openfile but keep first file open

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I think this is an Acrobat Reader thing. I use this function a lot, and stress to the users that they must do Edit Preferences Documents and uncheck Open cross-document links in same window. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation

Thought for the day

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED My local paper yesterday referred to a car being a right-off. And a brochure published by the Home Office (the UK ministry for domestic affairs) about the project I'm working on refers to vehicles being stationery. The mind boggles. Cynthia Milton - 0773

PDF weirdness

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Good afternoon all. One of my engineers came to me today having printed out a PDF I sent him (FM9p250, WinXP SP3). Not a dry seat in the house - the (A4) page was a tiny rectangle in the middle of the sheet. When I fired up the PDF in Reader on my

RE: PDF weirdness

...@voith.com] Sent: 27 May 2010 14:27 To: Milton, Cynthia; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: PDF weirdness Good luck, Cynthia. I've forgotten all of the details, but I've had this happen in FM 6 and FM 7, too, so we can't blame FM 9 for this one. I'm pretty sure the settings were

Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED W*** is a four-letter thingy where I work. Just uttering it within my hearing reduces me to jelly. I prefer a quiet life, with no dramas. Seriously, as far as I'm concerned, ease of use, consistency (and enforcement thereof), predictability, flexibility,

Page Numbering Format (# of ##) in an FM Book

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I put $lastpagenum in the Master pages of the last file (text colour white so it doesn't show) in its own para format. Then I insert x-refs to that paratag in the other files in the book. I can send you samples off-list if you like. Works a treat. Bit of

Consolidated index

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC Hi All FM9, XP. I'm constructing a consolidated index of around 200 individual documents and a 400-page book. I've created a book file containing the individual docs and the book file. I've managed to persuade it to produce an index containing the Subject

RE: Consolidated index - more

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC OK, so, I played around a bit more. I hope the following makes sense to you. To recap: the book file from which I'm generating the index contains around 200 files and a book file, thus: IOM (Index of Markers) Files . . . Book This book file contains ordinary fm

Pgf numbering strangeness

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC Run out of brick walls. FM9 p255, XP SP3 Single-file doc with four Sections. Sections and sub-sections numbered 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 etc. Pgf numbering formats: Heading1 S:n+. =0 =0 =0 Heading2 S:n.n+ =0 =0 Heading3 S:n.n.n+ =0 But I'm getting Sections

RE: Pgf numbering strangeness

] Sent: 30 September 2010 12:59 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Milton, Cynthia Subject: Re: Pgf numbering strangeness Cynthia, Is the book numbering set the same for all chapters, except chapter 1? Chapter 1 should have the chapter numbering set to start at 1. All other it should be Continue

RE: Pgf numbering strangeness

...@magma.ca] Sent: 30 September 2010 14:17 To: Fred Ridder Cc: dspre...@yahoo.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; Milton, Cynthia Subject: Re: Pgf numbering strangeness Finding rogue paragraph numbering can be a little less tedious if you save as MIF, open the MIF in a text editor, and search for PgfAutoNum

RE: Pgf numbering strangeness

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC I'm not using $chapnum because it's a single file. I've just done a mif wash, but no change. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation (Cyclamen - Rollestone) Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC This e-mail and any

Re: plugin for tracking text insets

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC You can produce a basic list of insets by adding a List of References and adding Text Insets to it. This gives you a basic list giving: Inset filename . . . . . . .Container filename . . . . . . . . . . page number. Not everything you want, but better than

Re: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC Not just Adobe. Regardless of exchange rates, it's always been the case that the dollar price is more or less the same numerical value as the sterling price. Thus anything costing $100 in the US costs £100 over here (which is sometimes twice the actual price). VAT

RE: FM8 with SP3/FM9 SP3 or Windows7 - any problems? [P]

Classification: Serco Public I have FM9 + XP SP3. When importing Visio stuff I've found the best solution for me is to export the Visio drawings as SVG for import to FM. Gives me a good result. OLE's a nice idea, but can be a liability. YMMV. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical

Creating hyperlink to PDF

I generally use a Marker, type Hypertext, value: message openfile path/filename This works for all sorts of file type. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation This e-mail and any attachments may contain sensitive and/or privileged material. It is for the intended addressee(s)

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PDF bookmarks [P]

Classification: Serco Public Hi Gurus FM9, XP SP3. I have a humungous book ( 1600 pages) with a subject index. I print to the Adobe PDF printer. When I print just the index, with bookmarks specified (GroupTitlesIOM), the resulting PDF shows the alphabetic bookmarks in the expected way.

RE: PDF bookmarks [P]

To: Milton, Cynthia Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PDF bookmarks [P] Hi Cynthia, More beer, definitely. Make sure the GroupTitlesIOM format is specified in the book file PDF Setup and not just in the Index file. (In the book file, select all files including the book file

PDF Bookmarks [P]

Classification: Serco Public I believe I've now tried all combinations, and still no dice. Printing to PS and then distilling doesn't work either. I still have bookmarks in the individual index file, and none at all in the huge one. I'll keep trying, but . . . I may have to self-harm. Cynthia

RE: PDF Bookmarks [P]

in Format Document PDF Setup Bookmarks. Did you select all files in the book, before you did this? Best regards Winfried -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- boun...@lists.frameusers.com] Im Auftrag von Milton, Cynthia Gesendet

Graphics filter error

When I import from Visio I find the SVG format works best for me. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation This e-mail and any attachments may contain sensitive and/or privileged material. It is for the intended addressee(s) only. If you are not a named addressee, you must not

Re: master index of multiple book

I concur. In my last job I did exactly that (so engineers could find the doc they needed easily). The uber-book contained over 300 separate docs, and another 400-page big book as a sub-book. When you generate the index, make sure you DO NOT UPDATE ANY NUMBERING, as otherwise everything gets

FM9 and two monitors

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I've just upped from 7 to 9, and just about got to grips with the new interface. There's a lot of nice things that were on my wishlist, and on the whole I like it. Still lots to learn, though (even having used FM for something like 15 years in both Win and

Text inset (FM9)

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I don't know if this is a bug but I can't find anything about it anywhere else. I have a number of docs with text insets. When I do an update, an extra carriage return is added at the end of the inset which duplicates the paratag of the first line of

Import external file by reference

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I use a different approach to this question. All my docs are provided to the users as PDFs. Where they refer out to other docs I use hyperlinks and open the referred-to docs in a new window (sometimes PDF, sometimes Excel spreadsheet, etc.) It helps that

Quoting

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I second that. Really difficult to winnow out the current content otherwise. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation (Cyclamen - Rollestone) -Original Message- BTW, please don't quote the entire Framers Digest in you posts, just the

FM9 PDF output

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Hi All from a newbie I've just migrated fom FM7.1 to 9.0.2. I'm trying to output a doc containing a mixture of portrait and landscape pages. In FM7 I used Save Book As PDF and got perfect results, complete with bookmmarks. FM9 produces a PDF with

Standard font for technical documentation

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED My personal faves are Palatino for text and Arial/Helvetica for headings. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED This e-mail and any attachments may contain sensitive and/or privileged material;

"10 FM Tips" free webinar -- Tuesday, Oct 13 (10am PDT)

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Any chance of making this available to those of us on GMT (i.e., not awfully awake at 4am)? Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED This e-mail and any attachments may contain sensitive

Xrefs in text insets (FM9)

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I have docs with text insets and quite a lot of Xrefs. When I print the container doc to PDF, the Xrefs within the inset doc do not convert to links. Have I done something stupid? Or is this normal? The User Guide of FM9 sucks compared with previous

Xrefs in text insets (FM9)

- From: Diane Gaskill [mailto:dgcal...@earthlink.net] Sent: 20 October 2009 04:42 To: Milton, Cynthia; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Xrefs in text insets (FM9) Hi Cynthia, You are not doing anything wrong. We had the same problem. The reason that the links do not work

Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Amongst other things, the Apply Master Pages thingy is great when you have a mixture of portrait and landscape pages - makes it simple to ensure they all stay the right way round. Saved me shedloads of hassle. Other stuff: spreading it across multiple

Revision histories - xrefs

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I try to use x-refs where possible for these. That way they still point to the appropriate place in the doc when other stuff has been added/moved/deleted. And when something's been deleted I just convert the x-ref to text. Bit untidy, but satisfies the

FM8 with SP3/FM9 SP3 or Windows7 - any problems? [P]

Classification: Serco Public I have FM9 + XP SP3. When importing Visio stuff I've found the best solution for me is to export the Visio drawings as SVG for import to FM. Gives me a good result. OLE's a nice idea, but can be a liability. YMMV. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical

FM9 + WinXP Pro: Object Properties?

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Sounds odd. All works for me OK. Exactly the same setup, BTW. However, it's occurred to me that the Object Properties pod may be trying to appear off-screen - I have mine set up so the main FM9 window is on my big screen and all the pods and stuff stay on

Consolidated index

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC Hi All FM9, XP. I'm constructing a consolidated index of around 200 individual documents and a 400-page book. I've created a book file containing the individual docs and the book file. I've managed to persuade it to produce an index containing the Subject

Consolidated index - more

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC OK, so, I played around a bit more. I hope the following makes sense to you. To recap: the book file from which I'm generating the index contains around 200 files and a book file, thus: IOM (Index of Markers) Files . . . Book This book file contains ordinary fm

Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED W*** is a four-letter thingy where I work. Just uttering it within my hearing reduces me to jelly. I prefer a quiet life, with no dramas. Seriously, as far as I'm concerned, ease of use, consistency (and enforcement thereof), predictability, flexibility,

Page Numbering Format (# of ##) in an FM Book

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I put <$lastpagenum> in the Master pages of the last file (text colour white so it doesn't show) in its own para format. Then I insert x-refs to that paratag in the other files in the book. I can send you samples off-list if you like. Works a treat. Bit

FrameMaker 9 Repeatable Hard Crash

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Does the same in XP/FM9p250 unstructured, although I found that ending one of the FM processes in Task Manager zapped the second instance as well, and CPU usage died down immediately. However, one has to ask why one would want to import formats from

hypertext command "message openfile" but keep first file open

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED I think this is an Acrobat Reader thing. I use this function a lot, and stress to the users that they must do Edit > Preferences > Documents and uncheck "Open cross-document links in same window". Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation

Thought for the day

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED My local paper yesterday referred to a car being a right-off. And a brochure published by the Home Office (the UK ministry for domestic affairs) about the project I'm working on refers to vehicles being stationery. The mind boggles. Cynthia Milton - 0773

PDF weirdness

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Good afternoon all. One of my engineers came to me today having printed out a PDF I sent him (FM9p250, WinXP SP3). Not a dry seat in the house - the (A4) page was a tiny rectangle in the middle of the sheet. When I fired up the PDF in Reader on my laptop

PDF weirdness

...@voith.com] Sent: 27 May 2010 14:27 To: Milton, Cynthia; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: PDF weirdness Good luck, Cynthia. I've forgotten all of the details, but I've had this happen in FM 6 and FM 7, too, so we can't blame FM 9 for this one. I'm pretty sure the settings were

plugin for tracking text insets

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC You can produce a basic list of insets by adding a List of References and adding Text Insets to it. This gives you a basic list giving: Inset filename . . . . . . .Container filename . . . . . . . . . . page number. Not everything you want, but better than

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC Not just Adobe. Regardless of exchange rates, it's always been the case that the dollar price is more or less the same numerical value as the sterling price. Thus anything costing $100 in the US costs ?100 over here (which is sometimes twice the actual price). VAT

Frame 7 documentation

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC Hi All I'm using FM9, but the manual isn't nearly as good as earlier ones, and I've been trying to get hold of an electronic copy of the FM7 manual, which I remember as being rather good. Can anyone help please? Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical

Pgf numbering strangeness

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC Run out of brick walls. FM9 p255, XP SP3 Single-file doc with four Sections. Sections and sub-sections numbered 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 etc. Pgf numbering formats: Heading1 S:.< =0>< =0>< =0> Heading2 S:.< =0>< =0> Heading3 S:..< =0> But I'm

Pgf numbering strangeness

] Sent: 30 September 2010 12:59 To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; Milton, Cynthia Subject: Re: Pgf numbering strangeness Cynthia, Is the book numbering set the same for all chapters, except chapter 1? Chapter 1 should have the chapter numbering set to start at 1. All other it should be "Con

Pgf numbering strangeness

] Sent: 30 September 2010 14:17 To: Fred Ridder Cc: dspreadb at yahoo.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com; Milton, Cynthia Subject: Re: Pgf numbering strangeness Finding rogue paragraph numbering can be a little less tedious if you save as MIF, open the MIF in a text editor, and search

Pgf numbering strangeness

Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC I'm not using $chapnum because it's a single file. I've just done a mif wash, but no change. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation (Cyclamen - Rollestone) Classification: SERCO-PUBLIC This e-mail and any

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PDF bookmarks [P]

Classification: Serco Public Hi Gurus FM9, XP SP3. I have a humungous book (> 1600 pages) with a subject index. I print to the Adobe PDF printer. When I print just the index, with bookmarks specified (GroupTitlesIOM), the resulting PDF shows the alphabetic bookmarks in the expected way.

PDF bookmarks [P]

To: Milton, Cynthia Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PDF bookmarks [P] Hi Cynthia, More beer, definitely. Make sure the GroupTitlesIOM format is specified in the book file PDF Setup and not just in the Index file. (In the book file, select all files including the book file

PDF Bookmarks [P]

Classification: Serco Public I believe I've now tried all combinations, and still no dice. Printing to PS and then distilling doesn't work either. I still have bookmarks in the individual index file, and none at all in the huge one. I'll keep trying, but . . . I may have to self-harm. Cynthia

PDF Bookmarks [P]

a lie-down in a darkened room, especially as the country will grind to a halt tomorrow because of some wedding or other. More beer, I think. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation -Original Message- From: Reng, Dr. Winfried [mailto:wr...@tycoint.com] Sent: 27 April 2011 15:41

Graphics filter error

When I import from Visio I find the SVG format works best for me. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation This e-mail and any attachments may contain sensitive and/or privileged material. It is for the intended addressee(s) only. If you are not a named addressee, you must not

Creating hyperlink to PDF

I generally use a Marker, type Hypertext, value: message openfile This works for all sorts of file type. Cynthia Milton - 0773 889 5991 Technical Documentation This e-mail and any attachments may contain sensitive and/or privileged material. It is for the intended addressee(s) only. If you

master index of multiple book

I concur. In my last job I did exactly that (so engineers could find the doc they needed easily). The uber-book contained over 300 separate docs, and another 400-page big book as a sub-book. When you generate the index, make sure you DO NOT UPDATE ANY NUMBERING, as otherwise everything gets