Re: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Gold
paragraph tags defined in a document. Paragraph Tools is $10 for a single-user license, $100 for a site license, and is available for FrameMaker 6.x and 7.x on Windows and Macintosh. Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices

Re: PDF question

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Gold
a black and white print-ready > > PDF. I've got graphics and blue (hyperlinks) text. I'd like the blue > text to come out as black. > > > > I think I need to fiddle with the Acrobat joboptions file and > postscript. But I'm not sure how. > > > > An

Re: PDF question

2007-09-21 Thread Peter Gold
It's not clear if the poster wants to change only the link color, or all color. My suggestion was based on changing only link color. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subsc

Re: Further information on Building blocks in FrameMaker

2007-09-26 Thread Peter Gold
tion tags. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On 9/26/07, Daya, Shetil A - Arlington, VA - Contractor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I wanted to know if there was a way to setup a "if...,them..." syntax >

Re: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

2007-09-27 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Rick: While you're waiting to hear from Chris, take a look at paragraph tools and character tools from siliconprairiesoftware.com. Very inexpensive and useful beyond their cost. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On 9/27/07, [EMAIL PROT

Re: Conditional Build Expression

2007-10-02 Thread Peter Gold
by a space. As > in .. > > "Condition A" OR "Condition B" OR "Condition C" OR "Condition D" > ANDNOT "Condition E" > > Nice, eh? NICENOT!!! ANDNOT in Help Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices

Re: Why am I losing page and column breaks?

2007-10-04 Thread Peter Gold
ay be able to help you. Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to

Re: partial page graphic lines won't print - RESEND

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Gold
M. When printing from PDF, the fix doesn't require changing line widths in graphics. HTH Regards, Peter _______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list mes

Re: partial page graphic lines won't print - RESEND

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Gold
ew document in the correct location. TIP: You can save time by printing only the suspect page. This exhausts my knowledge. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL

Re: partial page graphic lines won't print - RESEND

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Gold
it's present. My point about reading and understanding the topic described in Acrobat Help was to clarify the issues of very thin line widths that occur in files; it's possibly a clue to the problem that's surfacing in your FM files. Sorry if I was confusing. Reg

Re: Italics dropping out of TOC

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Gold
at to selected building blocks? Can you post the TOC Reference page lines? Thanks. Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On 10/10/07, William Abernathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got no response to the below post. Is this such a well-known

Re: Questions on viewing conditional text

2007-10-30 Thread Peter Gold
conditionalized, or, with View > Text Symbols ON, select across the paragraph marks of the paragraphs, then apply the condition tag. You've probably just selected text IN the paragraphs, but not the paragraphs themselves. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold K

Re: radical revamping of techpubs

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Gold
or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Peter _______ Peter

Re: Multiple File Import

2007-11-13 Thread Peter Gold
Ideas? > HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to

Re: Keyboard shortcuts in FM8 (was Re: 8.0.1 patch fixes FM Book to PDF issue)

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Gold
s a good place to stop holding on to the old architectures of these suite products, and time for Adobe to begin serious development of new and proven engineering that brings the products into the current generation. Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices _

Re: Keyboard shortcuts in FM8 (was Re: 8.0.1 patch fixes FM Book toPDF issue)

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Gold
n, even if it's slower than we'd like. No competing tool set is perfect, either, so hang in, send in feature requests, send in requests to participate in beta programs, help push the envelope. Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices _

Re: Acrobat / FrameMaker conflicts during install

2007-12-13 Thread Peter Gold
Acrobat 8 3D. Since you've not registered or authorized the products because you haven't gotten that far yet, you have a good bargaining chip for returning the purchase for exchange. If you'll have need down the line for creating help and tutorials, the suite is a good idea. Installin

Re: FM 7.2 and Acrobat 8: remove .tps and view PDF

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Gold
; > make it go away automatically (using Frame 7.2)? It is removed > > automatically if I use FrameMaker 8. HTH Regards, Peter _______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PRO

Re: Text flow oddity

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Gold
pages no longer worked. I'm not sure if the change occurred in FM 6 or 7, or if this applies to your problem, but it's worth a bit of search time. Perhaps other relevant topics will result. HTH Regards, Peter _______ Peter Gold KnowHow P

Re: Alphabetizing a generated list of Figures or Tables

2008-01-23 Thread Peter Gold
rtue of markers is that you can regenerate the index whenever there's a change that affects the page and figure-sequence numbers. The table-sort method is best done after the document set is frozen, although once it's set up, reapplying it to a newly-generat

Re: Keyboard shortcut for copyright symbol

2008-01-24 Thread Peter Gold
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Re: FrameMaker vs. InDesign CS3

2008-01-24 Thread Peter Gold
ant if you're working with RoboHelp (now supports FM, again) if you're creating help systems, and Captivate 3 (to record tutorials). ID does support XML, with or without DTD, but not the same way as FM - learning curve ahead. Also, ID doesn't currently support DITA, which FM does. HTH Reg

Re: HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Gold
ages from a file? > > Thanks! > > > Susan McDonald, Technical Writer > Teradyne, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers

Re: Working with Images

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Gold
t is to employ standard screen calibration, and standard lighting for viewing printed output? (No rants were harmed during the creation of this question.) Regards, Peter _______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are curr

Re: Question about applying and removing character tags in FM6.0

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Gold
n; setting all to as-is first, is a precaution to retain all local formatting - applied with or without tags - in the selection. Regards, Peter _______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Feb 6, 2008 2:46 PM, maxwell.hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a

Re: Background Color Obscures Contents in PDF

2008-02-07 Thread Peter Gold
cted, try Graphics > Send to Back, to position it below the text frames for header, footer, and main-flow text frame. The PDF should print correctly Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currentl

Re: FrameMaker doc "attributes" report

2008-02-08 Thread Peter Gold
rmation and even strip them down to the essentials you want.The text rectangles aren't described by their dimensions, but by the top, left, and bottom, right corner coordinates, and units. You'd need to do the math. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProSer

SURVEY [Cross-Posted]: Migrating content to InDesign? Changing your tool set to InDesign? Please share your plans or experience.

2008-02-12 Thread Peter Gold
ipation. Regards. Peter _______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit ht

Re: future of FrameMaker

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Gold
erforming its heart out, live, 24x7x365?" Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank em

Re: future of FrameMaker

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Gold
nds: Set bugs OFF, and DO what I'm thinking. It's always good to aim high, and persist in getting closer to that goal. Thanks for the on-the-scene update. Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are

Re: future of FrameMaker

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Gold
ications in the TCS. Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Paul Findon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the risk of repeating myself (ha, ha!), please tell RJ and the > team that the feature I - and the nearly 4

Re: Question about TOC, LOF, LOT

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Gold
> first). > > > > He says that LOF and LOT are front matter and are not called out in > > the TOC, so they should come before the TOC. Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are curren

Re: Cross References:using text that is not that linked to

2008-02-19 Thread Peter Gold
etter than sliced bread. Just try these features, blah blah The <$paratext> building block of a cross-reference that points to a part2topicname paragraph retrieves "xy statistics", in the above example. With care, you can a number of consecutive run-in paragraphs for this kind of

Re: Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Peter Gold
t's hard to forget a proven tool-chain process like this. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Paul Findon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tina, > > This is impossible with FrameMaker alone. I thought

Re: Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Peter Gold
Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Pete Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Framers > > > > Another newbie question. > > > > On a generated index, I have a two column spread alphabetically. My problem > is trying to find th

Re: Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Peter Gold
possible to do this operation with some readily-available tools. Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: Trouble splitting a chapter into two files using FrameMaker....

2008-03-06 Thread Peter Gold
xt inset for the second part (or inserting both > parts btext inset into an otherwise empty container file). Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTE

Re: IX generation question restated

2008-03-18 Thread Peter Gold
ragraph in the Index Specification on the index reference page and regenerate. As far as I know, there's no way to capture the autonumber for a specific index level (Level1IX, Level2IX, etc.). It's all entries or none. HTH If you want Regards, Peter ___ Peter

Re: FM 8

2008-03-24 Thread Peter Gold
behaviour you are describing occurs if the paragraphs don't contain any > text (yet). So: > Regards, Peter _______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list

Re: Autonumber at end of paragraph

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Gold
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Re: extract changed texts

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Gold
before. HTH Regards, Peter _______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http:/

Re: installing Frame 8

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Gold
7;s UniCode support. One example I recall is that some Acrobat Bookmarks are garbled by UniCode that didn't appear in FM 7.x conversions does appear in FM8 conversions. Whatever replies you get on this list shouldn't stop you from searching the whole 'Net with

Re: Stretching a table footnote to the column width ...

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Gold
tnotes, with the building block <$paranumonly>. Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsu

Fwd: Stretching a table footnote to the column width ...

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Gold
sults. Others on the list may have other suggestions, or improvements to add. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices -- p... Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices _

Re: Stretching a table footnote to the column width ...

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Gold
I like it, too! Simpler is usually better. Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On undefined, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all. > > I decided not to try this one from Peter, because I received another > suggestion off-line that did exactly what I wanted. Sinc

Re: Taking a screen shot with the cursor

2008-04-08 Thread Peter Gold
Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Stuart Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Flato, Gillian wrote: > > Does anyone know how to take a screenshot so that the screenshot > > includes the mouse and where it's pointi

Re: OS X 10.4.11 -- can't import files from Word

2008-04-18 Thread Peter Gold
Import." Which seems to have worked perfectly. Thank god for > archives. > > Yes: I should have mentioned it. Back in FrameMaker 6 for Mac, for some > unfathomable reason, the 'Japanese' RTF import filter worked better than the > other one. > > >And, yes, the

Re: Fine tuning pagination

2008-04-21 Thread Peter Gold
phy forums about how to do the first without doing the second at the same time. If it's possible to work with the authors, editing the writing is one useful component in fitting stuff into available space. Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold Know

Re: Fine tuning pagination

2008-04-22 Thread Peter Gold
n themselves. Without an overall design solution planned in advance, you'll risk building a "giraffe" - a horse designed by a committee. In addition, applying many ad-hoc tweaks will make future maintenance difficult or impossible. HTH Regards, Peter __

Re: best method to store template version

2008-04-22 Thread Peter Gold
e documentation than fits into one frame; another benefit is that you can store all the template documentation and tutorials in one location. Regards, Peter _______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Fred Ridder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Learning curve for FrameMaker

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Gold
ndows/Mac versions, used a similar technique - field codes in a "container" document that referred to the independent component files without concatenating them, and provided processing instructions. Sometime after Word moved to the Master Document, this was dropped. Regards, Peter

Re: Learning curve for FrameMaker

2008-04-30 Thread Peter Gold
you can rely on them to behave uniformly and reliably in standard situations. FrameMaker's very good at this; Word's been known to be fragile in some parts of its process. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices _

Re: Learning curve for FrameMaker

2008-04-30 Thread Peter Gold
ually lacking from the indexes in the printed manuals, too. Have you tried using the Catalog feature of full Acrobat to create an index of the PDF version of the User Guide? You can use Search in Acrobat or Reader to find text in an indexed PDF much faster than using Find. HTH Regards, Peter _

Re: Questions about look and feel.

2008-05-09 Thread Peter Gold
the improvement, or if the processing of the text for printing contributes to effect. I knew the third edition was uncomfortable, before I ever saw the fourth. The design of the fourth edition confirms that the quality of the reading experience is a result of the designer's skill

Re: Display of pages

2008-05-09 Thread Peter Gold
on on importing formats, templates, master pages, crop marks, margin settings, header text frames, non-printing color, etc. in FM's online Help, and in Google searches. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You ar

Re: Long Figure Tiles in FrameMaker 7.2 Windows

2008-05-13 Thread Peter Gold
may want to show the indicators on the conditionalized text, to verify that the tagging is accurate. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [

Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update Now Available via Adobe Updater

2008-05-14 Thread Peter Gold
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Re: Emphasis on characters within paragraphs

2008-05-16 Thread Peter Gold
ied by a named character format, or applied as an override. "As Is" means "do not change;" it would be great if FM offered a "Restore Default Paragraph Font" feature. You can file a feature request at: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform HTH

Re: Publisher to Frame Conversion

2008-05-16 Thread Peter Gold
will have to cut in Publisher, paste >> into Frame, and reformat. Is there an easier way? HTH Regards, Peter ______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list message

Re: Crossing out a table cell

2008-06-02 Thread Peter Gold
cell properties, but you still need to tweak the text manually. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscri

Re: anchored frame alignment with insertion point

2008-06-03 Thread Peter Gold
s for moving down). This same Alt+arrow technique works to move selected text above or below the baseline, or left and right. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Aravindhan T S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > please s

Re: Strange Frame to PDF problem

2008-06-04 Thread Peter Gold
h > that's the problem. I'm thinking that the limitation was 256 > characters total, but that could just be the number that's popping out > of the grey cells today Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices _

Re: FM8 and Acrobat Pro 9

2008-06-06 Thread Peter Gold
TED]> wrote: > Dov, I'm wondering if you should alert Adobe to revise their > installation instructions for Adobe Acrobat: that they should include > as an initial step in their instructions, the purging of the Adobe > Reader from the user's machine. Regards, Peter _

Re: table and figure captions

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Gold
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Re: table and figure captions

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Gold
Thanks for checking, Paul. I don't pull out table titles for TOCs, so I wasn't aware of the fix. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Paul Findon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11 Jun 2008, at 15:46, Peter Gold wrote: > >> One problem to be aware of when using single-ce

Re: table and figure captions

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Gold
rect order. HTH Regards, Peter ______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or v

Re: disagreement on overrides

2008-06-12 Thread Peter Gold
ore saving the result, verify by comparing the before-and-after versions. HTH Regards, Peter ______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Combs, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Milan Davidovic wrote: > >> The way I've been &q

Re: adding user variables to the TOC

2008-06-16 Thread Peter Gold
, set the Chapter numbering to Use Same Number as Previous Chapter. HTH Regards, Peter ______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubsc

Re: How to automatically import index and cross-reference entries from Word 7 to FM 7.2 or 8?

2008-06-17 Thread Peter Gold
Next. Mike, thanks for the detailed MIF solution. If your clients objected to plugins because of cost, you can manage marker text efficiently with the free MarkerWorker plug-in from Cudspan (search Google for markerworker.) Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Tue, J

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

2008-06-19 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Rene: Windows XP official support is supposed to end soon. Windows XP won't be shipped with Intel Macs after the end of June, I believe. I think the same applies to PCs. So, Vista is not just a preference, it's a deadline. There's no compelling reason to avoid an XP-based machine. By this t

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

2008-06-19 Thread Peter Gold
a) Vista or b) Mac, I'd definitely go > with b, speaking from personal experience. FrameMaker for Mac stopped at 7.0, which leaves the issue of buying a MacTel with Windows XP before the deadline at the end of June. > > > > Sarah > Regards, Peter __ Pete

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

2008-06-19 Thread Peter Gold
gh, with Boot Camp, I suppose there COULD be a store selling one > with Windows pre-installed and NO virtualization software included. > Still, Apple doesn't promote this as something available at their stores > or via the Web, AFAIK. Regards, Peter __

Re: Import Formats - Document Properties List

2008-06-20 Thread Peter Gold
fying names, and compare them with File > Utilities > Compare Documents for some clues about exactly what comes in with each type of imported property. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Jeff Schweiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The Mystery Wrap

2008-06-20 Thread Peter Gold
click in a margin whitespace area, or choose Commands > Set Window to As Is, to assure that you're only changing the font name. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Fra

Re: build-friendly PDF distiller?

2008-06-23 Thread Peter Gold
ller that can be used... Are there others, either from > Adobe or non-Adobe? Third-party PDF creation tools probably cost in relation to single- or multi-user ability, and quality of PDF. If you're printing four-color fine photographic content to paper, you'll need a tool that creates

Re: question about overrides

2008-06-27 Thread Peter Gold
of the saved edited file. This is easier than creating new paragraph formats for each unique instance, then cleaning up these unique fixes in preparing the material for the next revision. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Owen,

Re: weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-02 Thread Peter Gold
use the combination Ctrl+Alt+Click on a TOC entry to jump to the source. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Peter Gold
Have you tried to copy an example of the condition to the clipboard with Edit > Copy Special, then Find a paragraph format and Replace by Pasting, with Replace All enabled? HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___

Re: condition-specific paragraph tags idea

2008-07-02 Thread Peter Gold
> Thanks, Peter, an interesting idea to check out. > > My main motivation is to make conditions more "visible", to avoid later > confusion/errors due to conditions being a "hidden" attribute. > > Ben > Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow P

Re: weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-03 Thread Peter Gold
rated lists, table of contents, find marker, etc. Also there are several excellent FM books, including: FrameMaker(R) 7: The Complete Reference by Sarah S. S. O'Keefe and Sheila A. A. Loring (Paperback - Jun 11, 2002) Publishing Fundamentals:

Re: FM 7.1 cannot find file to cross-ref to

2008-07-03 Thread Peter Gold
Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are both files saved? > > Rick Quatro > Carmen Publishing Inc > 585-659-8267 > www.frameexpert.com > > > >> FM 7.1p116 on Win

Re: question about overrides

2008-07-11 Thread Peter Gold
nd overrides, other than examining each paragraph > individually? > > Is there a way to remove all overrides from a document in a single > operation? I guess one way is to import to a new document and select the > option to remove format overrides. Is that the best way? > HTH R

Re: Modify default under line formats

2008-07-17 Thread Peter Gold
redo), but you'll catch on quickly. The Rubi'd text won't wrap around line endings. I haven't tried it with FM x-refs and hyperlinks, just plain text, and I haven't texted the result of PDFs made by printing or Save As. Search for Rubi in the Help for full information. HT

Re: TOCs

2008-07-17 Thread Peter Gold
o remove the <$pagenum> building block from the first two column paragraph definitions. HTH Regards, Peter ______ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Deirdre Reagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All: > > FrameMaker 8.0, Windows XP

Re: ON-SCREEN GUIDES

2008-08-13 Thread Peter Gold
view that makes specified colors invisible. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank e

Re: why am I having missing fonts in FM8, and how to correct?

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Charlie: You may have noticed that FM has no Print Preview option. This is because FM's on-screen view is (nearly) WYIWIG, and has been going back many versions. FM does this by looking at the font names listed in the currently-selected printer's support file(s). You may have noticed that FM

Re: FM<-->MIF round-tripping

2008-08-29 Thread Peter Gold
Text Only with a MIF extension. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Adam Schweitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Fred. > This does work - I was unaware of this featu

Re: FrameImage (was Equation Editor Issues)

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Gold
oduce correctly when output. Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-11 Thread Peter Gold
se publishing and other automated workflows. It also works with DTDs. Can you comment the pros and cons of FM's XML support vs. ID's XML support? Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently subscribed

Re: FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4

2008-09-23 Thread Peter Gold
om them, which isn't often a designer's need. ID has always had auto-flow for "placed" content (like File > Import > File in FM). It creates pages as it needs them. You'll need to read the short passage in Help, when ID CS4 is released. HTH Regards, Peter Pet

Re: FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4

2008-09-23 Thread Peter Gold
FrameMaker users moving to Indesign. FM Mac diehards - don't forget that ID works on Mac OS X, both Intel and PowerPC G4/G5 chips. FM's stuck at 7.0 on Classic or OS 9 on Mac. Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently

Re: Element boundaries

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Roger: The property is saved in each file. You can set the property for multiple files by selecting them in a book window and using View > Show (or Hide) Element Boundaries, then perform Shift+File > Save All Files In Book. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold K

Re: Space!........ABOVE & BELOW!!

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Gold
ion to work either larger one wins, or additive. Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello fellow FrameManiacs, > > I'd like to know your

Re: Page numbering question

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Keith: Search FM Help for last page in book, and choose the topic "Including the total page count of a book in a header or footer," (or just search for "total page count.") HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5

InDesign and FrameMaker Text Entry Comparison (WAS: FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4)

2008-09-25 Thread Peter Gold
uot;Adobe InDesign CS3 Visual Quick Start," by Sandee Cohen, and "Real World InDesign CS3," by Olav Kvern and David Blatner. * These ID-specific resources don't address FM-to-ID issues, so if you find that applying the FrameMaker side of your brain InDesign causes headaches, post

Re: Structure View won't appear

2008-09-26 Thread Peter Gold
rename the safety copy to maker.ini, then restart FM. HTH Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:22 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whenever I try to modify a structured document, the Structure View will > not appear when I click the Str

Re: Migrating features over to InDesign

2008-09-29 Thread Peter Gold
matic features, consider posting your requests for changes in both FM and ID at Adobe's official link: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform HTH Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Lea Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > D

Re: Migrating features over to InDesign

2008-09-29 Thread Peter Gold
t team is working intensely as always. Don't be shy about posting wishes to Adobe's official feature-request site: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___

Re: FrameMaker-Acrobat-Other?

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Gold
dex > open to the first page of the corresponding PDF, not the actual page the > index tag references. > > Could this be a SharePoint issue? > Regards, Peter __ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices ___ You are currently

Re: RANT: FrameMaker's "help" function

2008-10-03 Thread Peter Gold
LiveDocs interactive, and also to correct the LiveDocs, PDF, and distributed versions of the FM Help topics "Controlling page breaks in tables," and "Controlling where tables begin" to include linked references to the topic "Breaking tables at a specific place." Futur

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