FrameMaker, Missing fonts

2007-04-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
it with another font. Unfortunately, I still get the same message. Any ideas? It won't let me update the book this way. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages

Re: FrameMaker, Missing fonts

2007-04-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
and not finding it, I figured it couldn't hurt to turn off Remember Missing Fonts temporarily. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Art Campbell wrote: This should be all over the 'net, because it's a FAQ, but: If you don't care about the fonts, under FM Preferences, turn off Remember Missing

Re: FrameMaker, Missing fonts

2007-04-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
off Remember Missing Fonts temporarily. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Art Campbell wrote: This should be all over the 'net, because it's a FAQ, but: If you don't care about the fonts, under FM Preferences, turn off Remember Missing Fonts, open all the files, and save all the files

Re: better diff tool?

2007-04-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
(or if you have a color printer). All of them can be spotted on a black and white printers by the underline. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Fred Wersan wrote: I've been thinking about using Framescript to do something to all edited text to make it stand out, for example, underline it or apply a condition

Re: FM, paste special text option

2007-04-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Check the setting in your maker.ini: ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF Try putting FILE before TEXT. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Shmuel Wolfson wrote: Original Message Subject:Re: paste special ...text option Date: Tue, 10

Re: First Time Framer!

2007-05-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Out of all the reasons to switch to FM, the layout was never an issue by me. All you have to do is select the correct print driver in the Print dialog box, and view the doc in Print Preview, not Page Layout view. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi, I hope you don't mind me

CorelDraw Embedded Graphics

2007-05-29 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
or why this happens, or how to avoid it. Thanks -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson ___ 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

Re: First Time Framer!

2007-05-31 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
in Word 2003. There's another option called Set the width of a space like WordPerfect 5.x. Perhaps that does the same thing. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson The 'rivers' (rivers = gaps between the words in paragraphs) are never as well adjusted in Word as you'd find in a professionally

Re: Text insets: to be or not to be?

2007-06-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
to cross-reference to it or to add an index entry to the heading. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Martinek, Carla wrote: -Original Message- The first couple of pages of the Preface contain the doc info (audience, scope, purpose, structure, etc.), and the stuff that's shared among

Re: Global Footer Change

2007-06-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Hi Howard, From the FM book, you can select all the files and import the formats from a file that has the corrected footers. When importing the formats, deselect everything except for Page Layouts. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Howard Rauch wrote: My client is asking me to update a catalog

Re: Need some FM tips

2007-06-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
See answers below. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM techniques? I am using FM 7.2. Most of these questions (except #6) are about techniques that are easy to use in Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent. 1

Re: Need some FM tips

2007-06-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Hi David, Esc vP (uppercase p) is the shortcut for going back to the source of a cross-reference. By the way, if you don't like FM's shortcut keys, you can change them. See Customizing_Frame_Products.pdf located in: C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\OnlineManuals Regards, Shmuel Wolfson

Re: FrameMaker in Hebrew

2007-07-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Here the link to the fonts: http://www.jewishsoftware.com/products/Hebrew_Graphic_Fonts_661.asp Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Reng, Winfried Dr. wrote: Hi Shmuel, Thanks for the info. When I did a quick search on the web for font and right to left I couldn't find info on such fonts. Do you

Re: Any way to key out of a selected table?

2007-07-12 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Alt t p Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Kenneth C. Benson wrote: I'm converting text to table a few thousand times and I want to stop having to use the mouse. I can Find the beginning of the text, shift arrow down to the bottom of the text, use ALT t v Enter to convert text to table

Re: deleting backup files

2007-07-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
external power.) Regards, Shmuel Wolfson B Hechter wrote: Thanks to everyone for suggestions on post-production deletion of unnecessary backup files. I overlooked the obvious Windows command line interface, so thanks for the reality check. My 2c on backups: - Flash USB is temporary storage

Re: Heading with autonumber and square bullet

2007-08-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
been documented here before. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Brenda Waltermeyer wrote: Using Windows XP, FrameMaker 7.2 I am trying to add a graphic or a square bullet in front of all my headings. Example: ? 1.1 Heading 1 Is there a way to do this in FrameMaker. I placed

Re: first impressions of FrameMaker 8

2007-08-29 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I think we should be happy that the new version has some significant improvements and shows that Frame is NOT a dead or dying product, instead of complaining about the lateness of the new features. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Alison Carrico wrote: In my business (document/software translation

Re: Sequential page numbers on alternate pages

2007-09-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
If you could create a custom variable which calculates ((current page number + 1) / 2), that would do the trick. Does anyone know if this is possible? If you create Flow A on the left pages and Flow B on the right pages, can they have separate numbering? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133

Text Editor

2007-09-05 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
as well for this feature alone. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson ___ 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: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

2007-09-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
for a specific variable or conditional text. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote: Hi We are goin to change all our Times New Roman 10 pt fonts to Verdana 9 pt fonts. What is the easiest way to update all styles in the paragraph designer? Right now, i have the following

Re: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

2007-09-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
While we are on the subject, what's the difference between Global Update and Update All? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Yves Barbion wrote: That's a good idea, Shmuel, and to make the change at once, I would suggest this: 1. In the Paragraph Designer, click the *Default Font* tab. 2. Choose

Global update for par tags

2007-09-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Gent Belgium T: +32 494 12 01 89 F: +32 9 366 50 23 BTW (VAT) BE 0886.192.394 skype: yves.barbion � On 9/20/07, Shmuel Wolfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the following: Make a copy of the file, and delete all par tags

3D Graphics

2007-09-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
/acrobat/articles/acr7sd3dcontent.html -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson ___ 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: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Are you sure it's still available. I can't find this on Adobe's site, and the link below is no longer available. To learn more about the suite please visit www.adobe.com/technicalcommunicationsuite. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Dov Isaacs wrote: ( BW)(CA-ADOBE-SYSTEMS)(ADBE) Adobe Unveils

Re: Adobe Acrobat 8

2007-09-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Don't expect the bugs to be fixed until 8.x, where x is greater than 0. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Danny G Green wrote: In June there was a posting about Acrobat 8 dropping pages, text, and words when produced from FrameMaker 7.2. Is anyone still having problems

Re: Adobe Acrobat 8

2007-09-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Don't expect the bugs to be fixed until 8.x, where x is greater than 0. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Danny G Green wrote: In June there was a posting about Acrobat 8 dropping pages, text, and words when produced from FrameMaker 7.2. Is anyone still having problems? Thanks Danny Green

Re: looking for conditional text scenarios

2007-10-14 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
conditionalizing the text in the row instead of the table row, which is more time consuming. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 David Valiulis wrote: Greetings, Here at Adobe we're looking for real-world uses of conditional text. We'd be very interested in a summary of some

Re: PDF contradiction?

2007-10-24 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
What's this shared review thing? Is it anything more than enabling the reader to add comments? I still recommend using PDF-XChange PDF Viewer for adding comments. I've found it to work on all PDFs including encrypted and PDFs that did not have commenting allowed. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson

Re: PDF contradiction?

2007-10-24 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It's not PDF security. It's only for comments. All of the option of the Security tab are not affected. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Art Campbell wrote: Always good to know about a program that totally trashes PDF security, Shmuel. Thanks for sharing... Art On 10/24/07, Shmuel Wolfson [EMAIL

Re: PDF contradiction?

2007-10-24 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Is shared review different than commenting? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Flato, Gillian wrote: Shared review is a feature of Acrobat 8 Professional. -Gillian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Wednesday, October 24

Re: looking for FrameMaker install location in the registry

2007-10-31 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Wouldn't it be faster (and safer) just to search the computer for FrameMaker.exe? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Jakob Fix wrote: Hello, I am preparing an update installer to be deployed by authors in my organisation. The update contains mainly updated EDDs and other supporting files

Re: Fixing Numbers in PDF Bookmarks

2007-11-01 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I think the soft return is the simplest and most elegant solution. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson William Abernathy wrote: Here's an annoyance I'm stumped on. I've been working on updating my group's template, which is a unification of two work groups' templates. One group had chapter title

FM Search Tools

2007-11-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Does anyone have a recommendation of a free or cheap search tools that does a good job searching FM files? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Scott Prentice wrote: Hi Jim... A quick test shows me that the name of the referenced inset is visible as plain text within the binary FM file (FM7.2). I

Re: Putting line drawings in a frame doc

2007-11-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the resize handles. With this method, the anchored frame stays in the same relative location to the point of insertion. And any drawing lines that you drag into the anchored frame move together with the anchored frame. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Theresa de Valence wrote: Hello Framers, One

Re: third-party or Frame tools for doc review/collaboration

2008-01-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
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Re: third-party or Frame tools for doc review/collaboration

2008-01-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Well if you want to just get the PDF Standard, you can always send the PDF with a link to the PDF-XChange Viewer (free). With this tool you can add comments to any PDF, including encrypted ones. http://www.docu-track.com/downloads/users/ Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Shlomo Perets

Re: Unavailable fonts issue

2008-01-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You can easily avoid this by using PureText. It removes all formatting from the original text. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Diane Schaefer wrote: Hi Isabelle, I recently made an amazing discovery regarding elusive, unavailable fonts: If you copy and paste non-Frame, non-HTML

Re: Converting Framemaker to Word

2008-01-10 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
, it works very fast and does a good job. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Fred Staal wrote: I am seeking assistance in the conversion of several Framemaker books, varying from 150 to 500 pages in length (with many graphics, tables), to reasonably cosmetic versions in Word. Please contact me directly

Re: The dreaded Internal Error error meets the dreaded Adobesupport, sigh

2008-01-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You could make a simple batch file to delete the two FNTCACHE.DAT files and put on the Quick Start section of the taskbar, or wherever it's convenient for you. This doesn't completely automate the process, but it's close. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Ken Stitzel wrote: THANK YOU

Re: Using PDF Converter with Frame

2008-01-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Here's a list I've compiled. This list was compiles mainly with Word in mind. You have to check the support on FM. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson --- Free: - PDF995 - CutePDF http://www.acrosoftware.com/Products/CutePDF/Printer.asp - Create PS file and use GSview (which uses

Internal Error

2008-02-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I occasionally have the dreaded Internal Error after a search in FM, then FM closes. Would extra RAM help? I have 1 GB of RAM now. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages

Re: Internal Error

2008-02-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
. Would extra RAM help with this? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: In large documents, bigger RAM can speed up the work but usually 1GB is ample. Which version FM and in what instances does this happen? Bodvar On Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Shmuel Wolfson [EMAIL

Re: Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-12 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Here are two good text editors. They are much more powerful than Notepad. SciTE Text Editor Crimson Editor Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Linda G. Gallagher wrote: Thanks, Rick. Any recommendation on a text editor? I don't think I have anything other than Notepad installed currently, as I don't

Macro Express

2008-02-13 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
macro feature like word does? Any info would be appreciated. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-13 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I've had it close when scrolling a document that has embedded Corel graphics, when I scrolled too fast and did not wait for the embedded graphics to appear. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Pete Rourke wrote: Christopher - We are on the same version. I've never experienced the program

Re: future of FrameMaker

2008-02-14 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Why would they come out with the Adobe Technical Writing Suite and then just drop it? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Lin Surasky wrote: Gosh, has it been 4 months ALREADY? I didn't think this would come up again for oh, at least another week or so Where does the time go? ;-) -Original

Re: future of FrameMaker

2008-02-14 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I wonder is these rumors are started by competitors. It's possible that Adobe puts less development time into FM as they do their other more profitable programs, but I think it's highly unlikely that they will stop developing it entirely. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Mike Wickham

Re: Scripting pulling FM files from version control and creating PDFs

2008-02-21 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I was looking around and I see there are several Windows scripting tools out there. Here are three good ones: AutoHotkey - free, has a record macro feature like Word AutoIt v3 - free, good reviews Macro Express - $40 I like the record feature, so I'm trying AutoHotkey first. Regards, Shmuel

Re: Scripting pulling FM files from version control and creating PDFs

2008-02-21 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
, is it easy to use? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Peter Ring wrote: DZBatcher, http://www.datazone.com/dzbatcher2.html is your friend. kind regards Peter Ring Linda G. Gallagher wrote: Framers, A client would like to be able to have a script that runs nightly that will do

Re: 'message URL' hyperlinks

2008-04-01 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Speaking of hyperlinks, I have a: message URL http://url And when I click on it, it does not open a web browser. Basically, it's a dead link. Any ideas? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Steve Rickaby wrote: I have the solution for my posting below, although I don't understand it. For hyperlinks

Re: extract changed texts

2008-04-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Is there a way to search for text with a change bar, you could do the same thing with a simple AutoIt script. And AutoIt is free. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gunnar, This is rather easy to do if you have FrameScript. FrameScript is a powerful and easy-to-use

Re: Closing big book files

2008-04-10 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
First do a shift/save all, then a shift/close all. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Harold Winberg wrote: Hello Framers I am working in a Book file with over 400 chapters. I am using IXgen and opening all files to perform updates. Is there a quick way to save and close the files

Re: finding Mif2Go macros to replace WWP functionality

2008-04-15 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I recommend Steve Wiseman. He's a Mif2Go expert. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Jim Owens wrote: We're currently using WWP 2003 to generate CHM from our Frame docs, but since there's no support past FM 7.2, we're evaluating our options. This week I've been looking

Re: MS Word Numbering (was RE: FrameMaker uses)

2008-05-14 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I highly recommended using Sequential fields for numbering in Word. Read the one page in Word's help on Sequential fields. Then use the Tech-Tav macros (free) to quickly insert them. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Chinell, David F (GE EntSol, Security) wrote: Lester: An excellent description

Re: table and figure captions

2008-06-11 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
For figures, you can have a paragraph (style such as Figure style) with the next paragraph style defined as a Figure Caption style. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Shuttleworth, Roger wrote: Hello Deirdre The presence of a table caption is determined by the table format as shown in the Table

Re: question about overrides

2008-07-10 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
table to the next page? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Jim Owens wrote: If you want a page layout that FrameMaker cannot deliver automatically, then overriding the template for the printed output is your only option. The alternatives are to devise a template that produces a flawless page

Re: question about overrides

2008-07-10 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
would start with a clean book with no overrides (meaning if I wrote it from scratch), I can see the advantage to using no overrides, and a special paragraph to force new pages, since there is always that doubt about whether some overrides were added for non-pagination reasons. Regards, Shmuel

Re: Paragraph Designer Shortcut Key

2008-07-10 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
See Adding key sequences in Customizing_Frame_Products.pdf, which is located in your FM installation folder. Good luck! Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Callie Bertsche wrote: Hello Framers! It's my first post to the list! I've been gleaning useful knowledge from you all for awhile; thanks! I am

FrameMaker overrides

2008-07-14 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Is there any way to search for FrameMaker overrides? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL

File Comparison Tool

2008-09-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
, Shmuel Wolfson Mollye Barrett wrote: Hi All, My client has many unstructred Frame books (average page count 700 pages) with text insets and referenced graphics. They want to be able to do a couple of things that elude me... * Display change date on pages in a book where text insets

FM, Renaming links to graphics

2008-09-17 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
How about saving the files as MIF and using a search and replace tool that works on text files to change the path? Notepad++ has a global search and replace for text files. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Robert Evans wrote: The following will work if you have if you are working in, or have

Re: Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
, Shmuel Wolfson - Linda G. Gallagher wrote: Framers, I don't need convincing; I use specific tags to anchor all of my graphics and tables, but sometimes I find it hard to explain why. What are some of your reasons for always anchoring tables and graphics to specific para tags? When I

Re: Sorting: Ignoring periods

2008-11-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Why don't you just replace the period with a tiny graphic that looks like a period. You could put it on your reference page. Not the cleanest solution, but it's original :) -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Rick Quatro wrote: Hi Darren, Instead of a list of paragraphs, you could use FrameScript

Re: Offtopic: Questionnaire about documentation

2008-11-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
insufficiently explained. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote: Hi I am going to send out a questionnaire to our customers about documentation. I am interested in good advice, maybe a template or a sample questionnaire. I am interested in knowing whether

Re: User Defined Hotkeys

2008-12-01 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You can edit the cmds.cfg file if you want to change the ESCAPE shortcut sequences. The file is very hard to read in Notepad, but when you open it in a good text editor (Crimson, SciTE, or Notepad++) it's much easier to read. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Klaus Daube wrote: On 18

Re: Default anchored frame settings

2008-12-03 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Why don't you try the Auto-text plug-in here: http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html It's only $10. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Mike Wickham wrote: Looking for a solution, my web search turns up ImpGraph Plugins: http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/ImpGraph.htm

Can't open FrameMaker 7.2

2008-12-07 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
have the disk for 7.0. If I install 7.0 will Frame download updates for 7.2? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages

Re: Can't open FrameMaker 7.2 - resolved

2008-12-08 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 2:08 AM To: Framers Subject: Can't open FrameMaker 7.2 I can't seem to open FrameMaker today. When I try to open Frame, it starts to open and the splash

Re: the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
that were defined differently in one doc than the other. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Avraham Makeler wrote: Hi all, I am new to this group, and pretty new to FrameMaker (but I was a Word 2003 guru, so that helps a bit...). My question is ... I am taking over

FrameMaker hyperlinks

2008-12-28 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
When I follow a link to another file in the FM book, it usually does not close the current file. Other times it does close the current file. Is this a bug or a feature, and how do I disable closing the current file? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133

Re: Which files are critical for backing up?

2008-12-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the book to Word or Help, there are all sorts of files types there. IMHO you can delete all of them except for the INI files. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Avraham Makeler wrote: Hi all, My client backs up it FM files to VSS. I need to know which files are critical

Re: Placing icons in side heads

2009-01-04 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
(one for each of the icons). Define the par tags with a reference graphic above or below the par. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Leah wrote: FM 7.0 ; Windows XP In one of our products, users can choose between 2 programming syntaxes. Until now we have produced 2

Re: Adobe announces FrameMaker 9 and Technical Communication

2009-01-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Here's a presentation on what's new in TCS2: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/newintcs2/ It looks nice. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Carrie Baker wrote: I looked at their announcement. What do you think they mean by New intunitve User Interface? and then Work more

Re: Screen Capture

2009-01-26 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I like HyperSnap. It's an excellent screen capture program and has very good editing options. If you want to go the free route, MWSnap is the best free one I've seen so far. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Brian Lamborn wrote: All, Not really a FrameMaker

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
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Re: OT :: Frame Voice to Text software

2009-02-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
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Re: PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-09 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
PDF XChange Viewer is a really easy-to-use (free) tool for commenting on PDFs. It's something that you do not have to teach the reviewers. It's self explanatory. And you do not have to allow users to comment on the PDF in order to use this tool. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052

Re: Replace a para tag throughout book?

2009-02-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Good point Fred. But you could take a dummy file which only has the new par tag (and no other par tags) and import the par tags from that file to all the files in the book. Then do the search and replace. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Fred Ridder wrote: Responding

FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
When I make an index in FM, only the page number is hyperlinked. Someone asked me to make the text in the index also hyperlinked. Is this possible, and if so, how would I do this? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You

Re: FrameMaker index question

2009-02-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Good point. In general, you don't want this. But we have some manual that have an index consisting of a list of functions. In these cases, it would be preferable to have the function name hyperlinked as well. Is there any automatic way of doing this? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical

Re: [Techshoret] Re: FrameMaker index question

2009-02-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
wish Adobe could figure out how to simplify their interfaces. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Shlomo Perets wrote: Shmuel, You wrote: When I make an index in FM, only the page number is hyperlinked. Someone asked me to make the text in the index also hyperlinked

Re: Visually Identifying Marker Tags

2009-03-10 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You could take this idea further and create a few character styles for markers, each one with a diffeent color. Then run a few search search and replaces replacing marker of type XX and pasting the character format. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Stuart Rogers wrote

FM, single-sourcing 101

2009-03-12 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
are not that hard to learn, and you could implement it at your own pace. Good luck. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Joel wrote: I am using Frame 8. I have a set of seven manuals that are close to 100 pages each. Many sections of these manuals are identical, some sections

Repeating Footnotes in FrameMaker

2009-03-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
: (Pretend the numbers are superscript.) Pants 1 Shirts 1 Sweaters 1 Apples 2 Oranges 2 1 You can find these in the clothing section. 2 You can find these in the fruit section. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You

FrameMaker Footnotes

2009-04-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
book this problem does not occur. Any ideas why this is happening or how to fix it? Also, how to you adjust the size of the (superscript) number that refers to a table footnote? -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You

Re: pesky persistent unresolved cross-references

2009-04-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Sometimes this happens when you have conditional text which is hidden. If this is the case, AND you search for unresolved cross-references and there are none, you can safely ignore this warning. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Ben Hechter wrote: Can't figure

Re: Mif2go - suddenly some graphics files won't import when creating HTML

2009-05-04 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
all the details. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer Susan OConnor wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm suddenly having a problem with Mif2go. All of a sudden graphics files have stopped importing on some book files when I'm creating a HTML file. Others import just fine. The graphics files

Re: OT: Technical illustrations - Outlining a line drawing

2009-05-06 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
one doesn't work - WMF, EMF and DXF. You can open DXF directly in CorelDraw. Good luck. If you need more details, let me know. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Writer wrote: I should have offered more information: I want to create an outline to the actual object

Re: Motivating end users to read the user manual

2009-05-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
The fact is that people don't like to read. Exhaustive training material is exhaustive to read. If there are specific dos and don'ts that are *not* intuitive, make a short 1-3 page list, print it on color paper, and put it in the box with the product. That they might read. -- Regards, Shmuel

Re: Motivating end users to read the user manual

2009-05-19 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
the related sections of the manual before complaining that it doesn't work. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Garnier Garnier wrote: Hello Nancy/Shmuel/Sharon, others, Thanks for the response. I handle documentation for the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry

Re: Exporting the paths of graphics used

2009-05-20 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
You could select the list, turn the text into a table, then sort it. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Susan Curtzwiler wrote: Hi, I'd like to join this email about making a list of figures in alpha order. I followed the directions below and all I got

Frame 7.2 re-installation issue

2009-05-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
installing and uninstalling the trial version of Acrobat 9, repartitioning my hard drive, etc. Does anyone have an idea of how I could solve this? Thanks -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 ___ You are currently subscribed

Re: Push or Click???

2009-06-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I would use Press (not Push) when the user has to physically press a button (like an ATM machine), Click when the user has to perform a mouse click, and Tap when the user has to tap with a stylus. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Garnier Garnier wrote: Hi I have

Re: Help with Saving 200+ FrameMaker 7 files in FM 9

2009-06-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
FrameMaker) WinWaitActive(Adobe FrameMaker) Send(!tr) Sleep(100) Send(!n) Send(!s) Sleep(200) Send({TAB 4}) $x = $x + 1 WEnd -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 jody giunta wrote: Hello, I have several hundred FrameMaker 7.0 files

Re: Can Word identify graphic file names?

2009-07-01 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
code including the path. If they are inserted in the doc (and not linked), than Word saved them in the doc itself so there is no path. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Carol J. Elkins wrote: I've been given a CD with over 1500 graphic files of all formats

FrameMaker TOC Problem - resolved

2009-08-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It seems that the problem with the page numbering in the TOC was that one paragraph was shifting to the next page when I updated the TOC, but it was not shifting to the next page in the PDF. I haven't quite figured out how that could have happened, but I solved the problem for now buy reducing

FrameMaker TOC Problem

2009-08-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I'm having two problems with a TOC (using Frame 9 p237). 1. The page numbers for a lot of the TOC entries are wrong. When I click on the links they go to the right pages, but not the pages listed in the TOC. It starts in the middle of one of the chapters - the page numbers in the TOC is one

Re: Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

2009-09-30 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
worth an upgrade. By the way, I do find it easier to work with 9.0 than with 7.2. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer Jim Duszynski wrote: Is there any advantage to upgrade from FM 7.2 to FM 9? I am using FM9 trial now and not finding enough improvement in features to justify the c0st

Re: Beware the Inadvertent Global Search and Replace

2009-10-18 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Yes, Adobe there add a warning before performing a global search and replace. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Peter Gold wrote: Hi, Bodvar: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson bod...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, with FM 7 / 7.2, but luckily without any

Re: Can you copy an entire master page from one document into another?

2009-10-27 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
a Save As, delete all other cross-reference formats, then import the cross-reference formats to all the other docs. Just be careful to only import the formats that you want to import. Otherwise, you could end up with a big mess. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Avraham

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