[Framers] Long Processing Time after a Frame file opens - Latest Frame Versions

2020-06-13 Thread ORAN PETERSEN
After a file opens and you click on it, it goes into "spin mode" and grinds away for sometimes as long as a minute, depending on file size. Often with two or more files opened, it freezes in this mode and must be killed with the task manager. This also happens when you copy a large section of

Re: [Framers] FM2019: Stopping the Save As PDF Process

2019-06-05 Thread ORAN PETERSEN
Hi Yves I have the same issue. The Save As PDF freezes at the very end, does not save the file and "locks up" Frame. Nothing seems to allow you to escape without doing a force quit of Frame with the task manager. This happened frequently to me when Frame 2019 first came out, after the first

[Framers] Frame 2019 Bug & Staus Update

2018-09-04 Thread Oran Petersen
workarounds or settings to help with this stuff, please let me know. I have been a Frame user, and Frame expert in a large company, since the beginning, 1980’s until recent retirement. I should know better than to take on a new version out of the gate. I was a beta tester in earlier days, so I

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 2019 Issues and First Look

2018-08-30 Thread Oran Petersen
that it is best to install Acrobat last so that it can set up the other apps for you. Oran Petersen --- From: Caroline Tabach To: "An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software." Subject: Re

[Framers] FrameMaker 2019 Issues and First Look

2018-08-29 Thread Oran Petersen
TCS 2019 I have purchased and installed this new version on two Win 10 computers, fully updated with version 1803. One is a Surface Book with a native resolution of 3000 x 2000. The other is a Surface Pro 3 with a native resolution of 2160 x 1440. Both have a 2nd monitor of 1920 x 1080. This

[Framers] Win 10 Build 1803 Breaks FrameMaker Ability to make PDF.

2018-05-05 Thread Oran Petersen
OS upgrade. If you have more info on this, please share. Oran Petersen ___ 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:

Re: [Framers] active URLs spanning more than one line

2017-06-15 Thread Oran Petersen
will have discovered the problem. In general, I have found that hyphens in URLs are a bad idea. Oran Petersen ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http

Re: [Framers] table footing - possible only on last page

2016-11-10 Thread Oran Petersen
By definition, table footings are at the bottom of each page of a multiple page table. There is really no other reason for a footing to exist. What you want is another body row, with custom formatting if you wish, to have it look different to represent the footing information. Date: Thu, 10

Re: [Framers] Section Numbers and Generated Files

2016-06-28 Thread Oran Petersen
s you wish. The VolumeNumber variable has the same rules (unique file in a book for a given Chapter/Section (volnum) except that you do not need to use a nested book. Just be sure to set each file in the book under Format-Document-Numbering and do a book update to see the results of your work. If

Re: [Framers] Pod Font Size

2016-04-02 Thread Oran Petersen
box. It is the exe file you want, not the shortcut. Not sure if this will help your issue with font size. Oran Petersen ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at h

Re: Frame 11 license becomes trial license

2015-05-09 Thread Oran Petersen
This happened to me about 2 weeks ago for F11 on my Win 8.1 machine. Seems that Adobe lost its brain for some on the activation intelligence. I chose the option install with a license, opened my Adobe account and entered the key. It came back activated and ready to go instantly. I highly

Unicode Font Characters in Frame 8 through 12

2014-02-14 Thread Oran Petersen
. This is easier than a mif wash. Oran Petersen   ___ 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

Missing Font Names Problems - Another Factor

2013-08-25 Thread Oran Petersen
all files in the book (you get the message for all impacted files) This permanently substitutes the fonts and will work until you again paste in content from other files and corrupt the file again. Oran Petersen ___ You are currently subscribed

Missing Font Names Problems - Another Factor

2013-08-25 Thread Oran Petersen
all files in the book (you get the message for all impacted files) This permanently substitutes the fonts and will work until you again paste in content from other files and corrupt the file again. Oran Petersen

Bookmark Setup and Section Variables

2013-07-02 Thread Oran Petersen
d >Sub-section are grayed out. Add a folder at this 2nd level, add a file and >Sub-section becomes available, but Chapter and Section are not. We cannot use >hierarchical books due to processing operations, so we are not happy. Adobe: Can you hear us now? Disconnect the variables from the books please. Oran Petersen

Structured Books

2013-04-27 Thread Oran Petersen
ot;Book" from the element catalog. If the Book element is "Valid Highest Level" it will be valid. 11. A book update will not fix a No Name. You must change it once as in Item 10. Then it will stick. Hope this helps. Oran Petersen

Structured Books

2013-04-26 Thread Oran Petersen
Highest Level it will be valid. 11. A book update will not fix a No Name. You must change it once as in Item 10. Then it will stick. Hope this helps. Oran Petersen ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list

Windows 8 Frame 11 Icon Display Issue (touch screen)

2013-03-06 Thread Oran Petersen
are OK. F11 is not functional with this issue. No sure if this is a Win 8 thing, a Surface Graphics Adapter thing or a Frame 11 thing. All other programs work OK. Only F11 is impacted. Anyone have any experience with this, or have suggestions? Oran Petersen

Windows 8 Frame 11 Icon Display Issue (touch screen)

2013-03-05 Thread Oran Petersen
are OK. F11 is not functional with this issue. No sure if this is a Win 8 thing, a Surface Graphics Adapter thing or a Frame 11 thing. All other programs work OK. Only F11 is impacted. Anyone have any experience with this, or have suggestions? Oran Petersen

RE: Add to Books

2013-01-18 Thread Oran Petersen
, easy and works every time. This saves us hours of time, as we create many books on a regular basis. If you do not grab the top file, they sort from the grabbed file down and then from the top file down to the grabbed one. Not what you want most likely. Oran Petersen

Add to Books

2013-01-18 Thread Oran Petersen
lder. Fast, easy and works every time. This saves us hours of time, as we create many books on a regular basis. If you do not grab the top file, they sort from the grabbed file down and then from the top file down to the grabbed one. Not what you want most likely. Oran Petersen

Bookmarks Don't Stay Set

2012-09-29 Thread Oran Petersen
to simultaneously install multiple versions of Acrobat, including Pro vs Reader. This has been cleaned up some in the later installs, but I still see it frequently. You must fully uninstall all versions of Acrobat and then reinstall only the one version to avoid this issue. Oran Petersen -

Re: Bookmarks Don't Stay Set

2012-09-28 Thread Oran Petersen
multiple versions of Acrobat, including Pro vs Reader. This has been cleaned up some in the later installs, but I still see it frequently. You must fully uninstall all versions of Acrobat and then reinstall only the one version to avoid this issue. Oran Petersen - Original Message - I am

Photo Truncation in Frame to PDF Creation

2012-05-31 Thread Oran Petersen
is not doing the rotation. If anyone else has a solution I would like to hear it. Oran Petersen ___ 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

Photo Truncation in Frame to PDF Creation

2012-05-31 Thread Oran Petersen
is not doing the rotation. If anyone else has a solution I would like to hear it. Oran Petersen

FM9: Cross refs lost when building a PDF (Terri Schultz)

2012-05-17 Thread Oran Petersen
We started using extensive Cross-refs about 5 years ago. Experienced similar issues with some not working in pdf. At that time we turned on the links, which generates Named Destinations all over the place, and the issue went away. We decided to live with the bloated file size and more sluggish

RE: FM9: Cross refs lost when building a PDF (Terri Schultz)

2012-05-16 Thread Oran Petersen
We started using extensive Cross-refs about 5 years ago. Experienced similar issues with some not working in pdf. At that time we turned on the links, which generates Named Destinations all over the place, and the issue went away. We decided to live with the bloated file size and more sluggish

Section Number Grayed Out in Book

2012-02-29 Thread Oran Petersen
for many years, and must now still do so. adobe, are you listening? Give us the option. Oran Petersen -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120229/c3101c1f/attachment.html>

Section Number Grayed Out in Book

2012-02-28 Thread Oran Petersen
for many years, and must now still do so. adobe, are you listening? Give us the option. Oran Petersen ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank

Re: SAving frame files with numbers at the end (Flato, Gillian)

2010-05-22 Thread Oran Petersen
RE: Subject: SAving frame files with numbers at the end Hi Gillian These numbers are hex codes that Frame uses to manage the save operations. They should exist only for seconds or less during the save. We saw this very frequently in past years, before we switched to a newer server version.

SAving frame files with numbers at the end (Flato, Gillian)

2010-05-22 Thread Oran Petersen
RE: Subject: SAving frame files with numbers at the end Hi Gillian These numbers are hex codes that Frame uses to manage the save operations. They should exist only for seconds or less during the save. We saw this very frequently in past years, before we switched to a newer server?version.

FrameMaker 9 Repeatable Hard Crash

2010-05-19 Thread Oran Petersen
We have discovered a repeatable bug causing a hard crash in FrameMaker 9. By hard crash I mean Frame locks up, goes sort of "white screen", starts eating up the CPU, and requires Task Manager to break out, sometimes after multiple attempts. It will drive the CPU to 100 percent, effectively

FrameMaker 9 Repeatable Hard Crash

2010-05-18 Thread Oran Petersen
We have discovered a repeatable bug causing a hard crash in FrameMaker 9. By hard crash I mean Frame locks up, goes sort of white screen, starts eating up the CPU, and requires Task Manager to break out, sometimes after multiple attempts. It will drive the CPU to 100 percent, effectively

Frame 9 Scroll Bar Lockup

2009-11-24 Thread Oran Petersen
I am using Frame 9 from a TCS2 package (XP). For me the many qwirks and bugs in the new interface have been less than pleasurable. I finally have a saved workspace that I can live with. One bug that is very frustrating for me is the vertical scroll bar locking up and becoming inoperable

Frame 9 Scroll Bar Lockup

2009-11-24 Thread Oran Petersen
I am using Frame 9 from a TCS2 package (XP). For me the many qwirks and bugs in the new interface have been less than pleasurable. I finally have a saved workspace that I can live with. One bug that is very frustrating for me is the vertical scroll bar locking up and becoming inoperable

RE: Frame Postscript Output Problem

2009-10-06 Thread Oran Petersen
One thing I did not see mentioned in this recent thread is the possiblity of file name issues. Over the years I have seen hundreds of frustrated users trying desperately to created postscript or pdf and getting nothing but cryptic (or no) messages and failure. In every case the problem was

Frame Postscript Output Problem

2009-10-06 Thread Oran Petersen
One thing I did not see mentioned in this recent thread is the possiblity of file name issues. Over the years I have seen hundreds of frustrated users trying desperately to created postscript or pdf and getting nothing but cryptic (or no) messages and failure. In every case the problem was

Re: Way to save Frame9 files in Frame7 format?

2009-08-01 Thread Oran Petersen
I have a machine with 7.1 and a machine with 9.0. Frame 9 offers a Save As option of MIF 7.0. I used it on a couple of Frame 9 files, transfered the mif files to the 7.1 machine, and opened the files with no problems. If you are using special characters or fonts outside the normal Unicode set

Way to save Frame9 files in Frame7 format?

2009-08-01 Thread Oran Petersen
I have a machine with 7.1 and a machine with 9.0. Frame 9 offers a Save As option of?MIF 7.0. I used it on a couple of Frame 9 files, transfered the mif files to the 7.1 machine, and opened the files with no problems. If you are using special characters or fonts outside the normal Unicode set

RE:Controlling sort order of files added to books (Was Adding files to book results in reverse order)

2009-07-24 Thread Oran Petersen
results. This technique works for all versions of Frame from 6 through 9 on Windows XP machines. Don't know about VISTA. Oran Petersen From: Ian Hawkins ihawk...@sundorne.com Subject: Re: Adding files to book results in reverse order To: Dustin Wilcox dus...@wilcoxconsulting.net Cc

Controlling sort order of files added to books (Was Adding files to book results in reverse order)

2009-07-24 Thread Oran Petersen
hnique, with perfect results. This technique works for all versions of Frame from 6 through 9 on Windows XP machines. Don't know about VISTA. Oran Petersen From: Ian Hawkins <ihawk...@sundorne.com> Subject: Re: Adding files to book results in reverse order To: D

Font Issues - Keeping Your File Clean - More Recap

2009-06-23 Thread Oran Petersen
to carry some formatting, or just use the Frame version of the Word file, you can do clean up by finding and deleting the hidden character \x0d. (no quotes, and it is a zero, not an o). You can also do this with a mif wash, but I think this is easier. Oran Petersen

Font Issues - Keeping Your File Clean - More Recap

2009-06-23 Thread Oran Petersen
" from a format perspective. If you wish to paste Rich Text Format from Word to carry some formatting, or just use the Frame version of the Word file, you can do clean up by finding and deleting the hidden character "\x0d". (no quotes, and it is a zero, not an "o"). You can also do this with a mif wash, but I think this is easier. Oran Petersen

Font Issues - Unavaiilable Fonts and Font Information Changed - Recap

2009-06-20 Thread Oran Petersen
Following the two recent threads on the list concerning fonts, I did not see a comprehensive recap of these issues for cause and cure. CAUSE-Unavailable fonts 1. Most postscript printers come loaded with a set of Postscript fonts. 2. If you set a postscript printer as your default,

Frame 9 UI Scren Mode and Tab Icon Issues

2009-03-21 Thread Oran Petersen
the menus back, but Screen Mode remains in Full Screen Mode (checkmark) even though it is not. With respect to Recent Items on the splash screen and FileHistory I find expected behavior both before and after installing the patch. Seems to work OK for me. Oran Petersen

Frame 9 UI Scren Mode and Tab Icon Issues

2009-03-21 Thread Oran Petersen
is that re-opening the file gives you the menus back, but "Screen Mode" remains in "Full Screen Mode" (checkmark) even though it is not. With respect to "Recent Items" on the splash screen and "File>History" I find expected behavior both before and after installing the patch. Seems to work OK for me. Oran Petersen