Is there a way to paste text as default?

FWIW...I'm running Win XP - SP2 with FM 7.2 (latest patch/update), and there's only one maker.ini where this change can be made, and it's in the Program Files folder in the path where FM 7.2 is installed. There is a maker.ini in the Documents and Settings path to my UserID application data, but

Is there a way to paste text as default?

From: Whites [mailto:whitefamily at mac.com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 20087:33 AM To: White William Subject: Fwd: Is there a way topaste text as default? Begin forwarded message: From: Rene Stephenson Date: March 6, 2008 6:01:15 AM PST To: Whites , "Reng, Dr.Winfried" Cc: framers a

Framemaker crashing when printing to ps file

the files you've been using with "cleaner" versions of code. HTH, Rene Stephenson Leah Smaller wrote: Good morning list people, FM 7.0 Acrobat 5.0 I usually print our Users Guides to ps file and then distill with Acrobat Distiller to get a pdf file. Always works - except today...

Upgrade to Frame 8? (Fred Skillman)

What if you use the "Open all files in book silently" script and then shift-alt-F, S? Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message From: Austin Meredith To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:27:54 AM Subject: Re: Upgrade to Frame

Autonumber at end of paragraph

Is your paragraph alignment set to Left or Justified? Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message From: Rick Spiegel To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:19:18 PM Subject: Autonumber at end of paragraph I'm using Frame 7.0. I want

Large FM File

Sounds to me like someone who knows and likes Word thinks the world should spin that way...even though they don't realize they're talking about a true planetary ecosystem this time and not just a globe. :-} Page numbering becomes problematic if you're trying to do folio by chapter page

What is a text inset?

The source can be a .txt file, and you can format it as per the container (target / destination / display) document's formats. You can insert it pretty much anywhere in the text flow. You don't need an anchored frame. But, if you use an FM file as a text inset, it works better if you make the

Framemaker Uses

One would think Vogue would be sourced in Quark... :)} Does JoAnn Hackos use FM to write her books...? I know of some who use FM for catalogs, though, as well as others who write in FM for the airline industry. :-) Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message From: Deirdre Reagan

roundtrip documentation and help (Framemaker/Robohelp - chicken or egg?

I would: d) Buy the current Adobe Technical Communicator Suite, just a $900 upgrade with ANY previous license for FM or RH. ...because the new RH and FM8 work together seamlessly. As I understand it, you don't have to roundtrip stuff back and forth through MIF anymore. You just set up your RH

roundtrip documentation and help (Framemaker/Robohelp - chicken or egg?

I'll take your experience over my watching webinars any day. Bummer.. Oh, well, I guess I can just stick with WWP Pro and FM 7.2 for a while longer. ;-) Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message From: Jim Owens In fact, as far as I know, any modifications

Of Templates and Legacy Docs

Nope, but you would need to tell him (and the rest of us who have been searching for it for a couple of years now since CudSpan went off-line and Mr. Despopoulos dropped out of virtual visability) how we can purchase it nowadays. Please... Pretty please with sugar on top Rene L.

anchored frame alignment with insertion point

Aravind, No attachment came through, but I think I understand your goal: graphic alignment at the level of indentation of the surrounding text. We achieve this by having the graphic inserted At Insertion Point in a special formatting paragraph we call Spacer. The Spacer format has tabs at each

Basic question- Visio to Frame

I've been successfully exporting TIF files from Visio and just importing that into FM by reference. The OLE stuff for Visio if FM does work, but it's really quirky/flaky with our files...although, that might be due to still using Visio 2003!! Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message

Basic question- Visio to Frame

ot; information from all parties on this list, so please don't hesitate to tell me where we're screwing up. ;-) Rene L. Stephenson - Original Message From: "Combs, Richard" <richard.co...@polycom.com> Rene Stephenson wrote: > I've been successfully

IrfanView Graphics Tool functionality

I'll try that plug-in. :-) Thanks, Grant. Rene Grant Hogarth wrote: To set Image Display mode: Select View> Display Options> To set Image Display order: Select Options> Sort Directory Files> To move back and forth in the folder: FORWARD: SpaceBar,

Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

...or maybe this is a case where SPS Auto-Text plugin would be helpful? Rene --- Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Rene, > > No there is not. If you are creating a lot of text frames (for callouts, > > etc.), you could create one, tag it correctly, and then copy it. Or, you > > could use a script to

Variables vs Cross-references [WAS: Hiding Pages?]

in the rest of the book...and whether it would impact the rest of the library... Rene Stephenson --- eric.dunn at ca.transport.bombardier.com wrote: > "Combs, Richard" wrote on 06/09/2006 > 01:09:11 > PM: > > I deliver primarily PDFs, and I wouldn't use xrefs in this way

plugin to remap or convert cross-references

of FrameUser strings, but I've come up empty handed. Can someone out there please refresh my fuzzy memory? Thanks! Rene Stephenson

plugin to remap or convert cross-references

, but I've come up empty handed. Can someone out there please refresh my fuzzy memory? Thanks! Rene Stephenson

plugin to remap or convert cross-references

ipt, it is works beautifully. > > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+convextech=alltel.net at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+convextech=alltel.net at lists.frameusers.com] On > Behalf Of Rick Quatro > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:47 PM > To:

Release Date for FrameMaker 8?

HSingleSourceWithWebWorks_ePublisherH Alan Litchfield wrote: Nandini Garud said: > * Creation of Help from XML/XSLT > HmmmRoboHelpH :) Alan ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as rinnie1 at yahoo.com. Send list messages to

Missing font in FM although it shows fine in Word?

ing. So, can someone please explain to me what's going on and suggest some options for a solution? I wouldn't know where to begin to find a similar-looking font to Minion to use as a sub for that char tag...if there such a place/function even exists. (Obviously, I'm no typesetter...) Tha

Establishing a connection to WebWorks in FrameMaker 7.2

from their Support site, but you'll have to call/email Quadralay customer service for an updated license key to work with the .msi file. Hope that helps, Rene Stephenson Tamsin Douglas wrote: Hi All, Apologies if this has already been covered in the list - I couldn't find it in the archives

Missing font in FM although it shows fine in Word?

Richard, Thanks for the insight! Yes, we do have Minion Pro. I've prowled through the maker.ini, and I'm wondering if the line I need to add would be in [UnknownToKnownFontMap] as: Minion Web, *, *, *=Minion Pro, *, *, * Thanks a mil! Rene "Combs, Richard" wrote:Word simulates the bold

Missing font in FM although it shows fine in Word?

Steve, Maybe FM should remove the B and I and U buttons from the interface, too, since we don't need to encourage use of such Spawn. Ha, ha! Thanks so much for all the info. The links are especially useful. Rene Steve Rickaby wrote: Rene - You have more or less explained what I think is

Missing font in FM although it shows fine in Word? - Global change?

As a follow-on to this topic, our "proper" solution would probably be to update all the relevant paragraph formats in all the templates to use Minion Pro rather than Minion Web. I don't suppose anyone would know of a quick way to do this en masse? I have ways to remap formats to new formats

Redefining multiple pgf formats (was RE: Missing font in FM although it shows fine in Word? - Global change?)

That's a valid point. We're delivering content as PDF primarily. Most of our users like to have the docs available as soft copies but prefer to work from printed copies, sometimes only printing pages relevant to their current task or an unfamiliar task. The web content that we deliver is

landscape pages in a portrait book (DOH!)

OK to use it and how to make it function, could someone please tell me where I could find some sound usability studies that weigh in on either side of this issue? Thanks, Rene Stephenson Rene L. Stephenson eNovative Solutions, Inc. Business Phone: 678-513-0051 Email: rinnie1 at yahoo.com

Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

Another note on server-based data: if you're having to access the server via VPN, there are faster VPN routers, and tunnels and there are slower ones...so check that, too. :-) Rene Stephenson Dov Isaacs wrote: Further update ... If you are access data from a "server",

Is there a Font Guru in the house?

the Bullets3 font to show in the list of fonts to embed? I'm beginning to wonder if this has something to do with a years-old string that I think I remember Dov and others commenting about some fonts allowing some things and not others... Any insight would be greatly appreciated! Thanks,

Way Too Much Corruption

If it's all the files in the project, that's odd. I think we'd need some more info to know what the best starting point would be for narrowing down a cause and/or fix. Are you on Mac or Windows? Have you copied the files to/from other drives since the last time you worked in them? I'm asking,

Distiller job options

Hi Tess, Martin is correct. However, after you put the .joboptions file in that path, you then have to open Distiller, choose Settings > Add Adobe PDF Settings, and then navigate to the .joboptions file, select it, and click open. ;-) HTH Rene Stephenson "Aronsson, Martin"

Quick Context-sensitive question

guess what I'm saying is, the TopicAlias has to be a discreet instance in the FM source files. Pardon me if I'm stating the obvious. Rene Stephenson Niels Fan?e wrote: Hi, You can point to the same topic from multiple places in the application. So one topic alias should suffice. -Niels

OT:online style guides

You could set up a supplemental section for your own company standards in FM and using WWP link to the other CHM with project-to-project linking. You could keep the output files on the network and re-generate it whenever there are changes and just have people add it to their Favorites in IE

FM to Distiller font problems

Dov, Thanks for responding. I really don't know how to view the "fsType" field in the OS/2 table of the TrueType font. I used MS free font utility to check that it is embeddable. Does that tell you anything? (...other than showing my obvious ignorance about fonts...) We did reconfigure

Cond Text in a text inset

It depends on how you import it and how you use the conditions in the source for the inset and the destination doc in which you've placed the inset. If you're consistent in the way you apply the tags on both ends and import using the destination doc's settings, I think you'd be OK. However,

Assessing a document's reading level

Hi All, Does anyone know of a tool or plugin or FrameScript for FM that can assess reading level of a document? My only idea is to convert to RTF and use Word's spelling/grammar checker to get the reading ease and grade level scores. Ideally, there would be a plugin to provide this for

Conditional text page problem

(which I have seen happen from time to time), try resetting the pagination to Delete Empty Pages, save again, the reset to Make Page Count Even (or whatever your typical setting is). HTH Rene Stephenson Fred Ridder wrote: Are you saving the file after you change the Show/Hide settings

Disconnected Pages

To force even-numbered pages in a given FM file, choose Format>Page Layouts> Pagination, and make sure Before Saving & Printing is set to Make Page Count Even. As for the Master Page usage issue, I'm not clear what you're trying to achieve. The place you'd set it is Format>Page Layouts>Master

Recommended Laptop Hardware Requirements help please

ed... well, remember what happened to everyone who had skimped on RAM and CPU 6 mo before Win XP was released??? ;-) I expound on the rigors of graphics as my key reason for justifying a workhorse of a laptop. HTH Rene Stephenson On 9/18/06, Loren R. Elks wrote: > Hi: > > My depart

RoboHelp to FrameMaker?

and efficiently (pardon the plug). The only caveat I'd have is, make sure your RH project has the topics hierarchically organized in folders, because otherwise all the topics come into the huge single MIF in alphabetical order, which can be very tedious to reorganize. HTH Rene Stephenson

Bizarre character issue (Uppercase F does not work)

Does [ALT]+70 (on the num pad) insert the ASCII char for F? Rene Bernard Aschwanden wrote: Hi all: I'm running into a really odd FrameMaker issue on my laptop. I'm typing and the only character that I can't insert is F. Uppcase F. I try to do so and nothing is inserted. If I type a lowercase

Condtional Text and X-Ref Scrubbers

at this moment (maybe I'm totally missing it), but Rick's great about responding if you contact him. :-) HTH Rene Stephenson Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote: Hi, Will! White, William wrote: > Anyone out there in FrameLand know of plugins that allow book-wide > renaming and deletion of Cond

Maddening problem with frame below

rrides, which at this shop is taboo anyway. If there's a better solution, I'd love to know about it! Rene Stephenson Steve Rickaby wrote: At 08:42 +0200 11/4/07, Reng, Winfried Dr. wrote: >I have a similar problem. I have an infoicon paragraph in the sidehead area >with a Frame below which

Maddening problem with frame below

Steve Rickaby wrote:>I guess by the 'same problem', you're referring to Winifried's, not mine. Yes, sorry. >I'm not using sideheads here, so I'd guess that if it's a bug, it's related to >the reference page graphic. OK, in light of this and Peter's comment about earlier in this thread

Maddening problem with frame below

it takes 8-12 hours for a team of 4 to generate our 7 documents, and this Frame Above / Frame Below problem with the paragraph formats is one of the main hindrances to automation. Rene Steve Rickaby wrote: At 12:16 -0700 11/4/07, Rene Stephenson wrote: >I can't trigger it without chang

Geeky Friday Humor

My hubby's VW Beetle's license plate reads: KAFER (with manually added umlaut as necessary) Rene S. Bill Swallow wrote: Now THAT is funny! On 4/20/07, Sarah O'Keefe wrote: > There's a car in our area that has a license plate that reads: > > FEATURE > > You get ONE guess as to the model.

pasting text from FM to FM

force use of the Windows clipboard and get the FM to FM to paste as plain text by default??? Rene Stephenson "Ridder, Fred" wrote: The behavior you are seeing is because you are using two separate instances of FrameMaker, so that the copy/paste operation has to use the Windows

Error when try to generate help file from WWP

or Word, on Win or Mac). HTH Rene Stephenson "Chandramohan, Anitha" wrote: Generate All began at 04/23/07 16:10:32. An error occurred. IMPORTANDEXPAND failed to read file D:/4/Support/Normal.asp. An error occurred. IMPORTANDEXPAND failed to read file D:/4/Support/Normal.asp. An erro

Realigning anchored frames en masse

that there are a few small graphics that should remain as Run into Paragraph whereas all the Below Current Line would be affected by changing the alignment.) Any insight you may have would be most appreciated! Rene Stephenson

How Do I Conditionalize an Entire File

ot; we use the same files in multiple FM books along with a few book-specific files to achieve a lot of our single-sourcing. HTH Rene Stephenson Angela Akridge wrote: In that case, I'll probably try to use a text inset for the content in the file. I have about 10 books. Thank you, Angela

Framers Template repository? Was: Re: Foxy stuff on master pages

Whenever someone does add the templates to the repository, could that someone please post an ANN to the list to let us know? THANKS! Rene Steve Rickaby wrote: At 09:25 -0700 7/8/07, Valerie Lipow wrote: >If anyone has one or more templates demonstrating the type of Master

Exporting Conditional Text

Unless Mif2Go offers a solution, I don't know of one. In my experience, native FM's Save As RTF function seems to just dump it out as if it were set to show all conditions without indicators. I hope someone can provide a better solution. :-) Rene Stephenson Theresa de Valence wrote

batch deleting backup files

.* *.lck /s HTH Rene Stephenson Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote: Hi, Mike. Mike Wickham wrote: >> Put the following into a file (named with extension .BAT): >> >> @echo off >> echo. >> echo Deleting the following files from the current directory: >> dir *.backup.* *.

Reasons to Structure

Matt, I'll start the ball rolling, but I'm sure you'll get tons of responses from folks more savvy about structure than myself. ;-) * Dynamic formatting: you can use structured FM to create formats that behave differently depending on various surrounding factors, like indent to a certain

Fonts they are a-changing

more flexibility with a Family Pack of some flavor - but whether the Pro stuff would be desireable is beyond me. Excuse me, my ignorance is showing. Would someone please pass me a safety pin of enlightenment...? THANKS Rene Stephenson

Fonts they are a-changing

out some font files somewhere! >:-} Rene "Guy K. Haas" wrote: Rene-- I'm surprised that The Powers That Be did not suggest/recommend/specify a source for the fonts they are mandating. Is there someone up-line you can ask? --Guy K. Haas Software Exegete in Silicon Valley

problems with master pages in 7.2

> Import page layouts with both remove options selected. If that doesn't fix it, I'd start prowling through the paragraph designer to make sure that none of the paragraph formats use the pagination setting for Side Head-Alignment. Try those, if you haven't already... HTH Rene Stephen

Fonts they are a-changing

Thanks, Dov. I have asked the highest level English-speaking person in the division stateside, and at this time there is no more definitive answer. I have been advised that some of the specifics of the branding guidelines are still being debated, and the lack of granularity on the font

Fonts they are a-changing

Thanks, Steve, for all that insight! I can use this information to help narrow my search, and also to demonstrate the importance of identifying and specifying exact fonts within the family. Coincidentally, I'm updating the company Style Guide for tech doc right now, too, so whenever we

Convert from Word or Robohelp to FrameMaker

open, just save it as an FM file. After that, Rick Quatro has a handy little script for sale that can split out the single FM file into separate FM files at a given heading level - say, whatever your Heading1 style would be. HTH Rene Stephenson "Andersen, Verner Engell VEA&qu

Question about glossary terms

Rene Stephenson Roger Bell wrote: I am creating unstructured guides in FrameMaker 7.2. The guides are primarily for print, but our customers also received PDF copies. There are terms that I need to define, so I have created a glossary. I want to use a visual indicator, so that anyone using

Substituting a check box for a bullet in FrameMaker

Karyn, I'm sure there are other ways to do it, but the way we handle it is: 1. Set up a new character format using the desired font that contains the kind of checkbox you want to use. 2. Set up a new paragraph format using autonumbering with the character format you set up in step 1 and

Easy-on-the-Eyes Switch

I bought a filter for my monitor, because part the issue is the amount of radation coming from the screen...and I still need to work in a rather WYSIWYG environment. http://www.officemax.com/max/solutions/product/prodBlock.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes=51181=-536891906 HTH Rene Stephenson Art

Captions: dynamic or relative indentation for autonumbered paragraph format

designer every time a different caption indentation is needed? Rene Art Campbell wrote: Try setting the Anchored Frame to centered and the width of the text column. Then set the left indent of the graphic to the indent of the preceding tag. Art On 1/31/07, Rene Stephenson wrote: > Hi

Captions: dynamic or relative indentation for autonumbered paragraph format

Yes, that is one way to do it...Thanks, Stuart. Rene Stuart Rogers wrote: Rene Stephenson wrote: > Thanks - but that doesn't affect the figure caption. I think my > original question got too convoluted (sorry). I'm trying to figure > out how to get the paragraph for the figur

PowerPoint to Frame

I agree with David about save-as-html ? that?s the route I?ve taken many times in similar situations, and it has proven a pretty efficient way to extract the graphics into something FM can use as a referenced graphic. However, I?d like to add a bit about the graphics? Due to the way that

Cross-reference oddity in FM 9

Hi All, I am having some trouble getting character formatting to read through in a cross-reference. The challenge is that the character formatting is part of the trademarked product name, so we do need the single letter i at the end of the product name to always appear in italics. I have it

Cross-reference oddity in FM 9

Hi Schlomo, Thanks for responding:? ? > However, in the context of cross-references, <$paratext> ignores all > character formatting present in the extracted paragraph text, except > superscript, subscript and font family properties - which are retained only > if implemented through a

Getting graphics out of a file

Lynn, A few years ago, I had a plug-in that does what you're needing. It would go through an entire FM file and extract all the graphics into a folder and replace them with linked graphics. The last time I used it was in FM 7.2, though, and I am having a hard time finding it again. I have gone

Cross-reference oddity in FM 9

Schlomo, I'm sorry, yes, I did miss that the angle had to be part of the font family name (mea culpa),? so I wasn't getting the fix right. You wrote: > Rebecca's clarification is correct -- you need a font where the italic > variation is part of the font identity/name itself (i.e.

Non-responsive paragraph formats in FM9

Hi All, I have recently inherited a new library of FM docs. All of the docs were leveraged out of legacy FM files, meaning that many of the original projects were created way back in FM 5 and just got updated to whatever the current FM version was at the time that the product line changes

Anchored Frame/Pagination bug?

Lynn, ? You might check the paragraph format of whatever precedes the Figure Title paragraph. If it has "Keep with Next" turned on, then it may prevent the Figure Title from rolling with the page break. HTH, Rene Lynn Gold wrote: <...>When the Anchored

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