Re: Very very old FrameMaker files: file extent

2015-01-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:21 -0500 10/1/15, Alan Houser wrote: I have seen FM files with a .doc extension, as recently as FM 7 (although those files may have been migrated from older versions). So ... not an accident or fluke. Thanks Alan. -- Steve ___ You are

Re: Customizing anchored frames in FM12 (unstructured)

2015-01-09 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:15 +0100 9/1/15, Heiko Haida wrote: How about using the new background color feature or the para box feature instead of underlining? This may look well with a 10% black e.g. Or you could use a frame below pgf, but the resulting line would always have a fixed length (like with footnotes).

Re: Customizing anchored frames in FM12 (unstructured)

2015-01-09 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:18 -0500 9/1/15, tom.beiswen...@emhartglass.com wrote: I have 2 problems. 1) I would like to have a thin border around all graphic frames, but can't find anything within the FM help menus that tells me how to do this. If you mean what I think you mean, just select the frame and use the

Re: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped; in PDF and HTML5

2014-12-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
I have not looked at the content yet, but Adobe documentation should be an exemplar, and IMHO a four-level TOC is not. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

Re: What is the situation with regards to buying used versions of FrameMaker?

2014-12-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
FWIW, I 'upgraded' from FrameMaker 6 to FrameMaker 7 for Mac years ago using a new unregistered upgrade copy obtained from eBay. It never gave me any problems. But I see that the title of this thread is 'used copies', and I guess that point has been well answered already. -- Steve

Re: framers Digest, Vol 109, Issue 21

2014-11-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:27 -0800 28/11/14, Phillip Norman wrote: I can readily draw and dimension objects in FrameMaker. Why would one use AI? Far better graphics? ;-) -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list

Re: seeking an elegant solution, somewhat OT

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:33 -0500 26/11/14, John Sgammato wrote: Seeking some creative input, or maybe a success story... The products that I write about use a variety of open source and other licenses. There is a thicket of rules surrounding attribution of them. I am looking for a way to assemble this the first

Re: Problem with playing video clips in FM 12 document viewed in Adobe Reader 11

2014-11-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 07:03 -0600 14/11/14, Mike Wickham wrote: If you have Acrobat, you should not install Reader or the PDF Creation Add-on that comes with FrameMaker on that same computer. I'm sure this is true, Mike, but it's ultra-dumb: many folks *need* Acrobat Pro as well as Reader and FrameMaker. Are

Re: mouse alternative

2014-11-11 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:42 -0500 11/11/14, Stuart Rogers wrote: From time to time, people have mentioned problems with RSI due to mouse use. I just came across this device and thought I'd pass it along. I have no other info on it, so can't offer a review.

RE: What free Windows text editor should I use to look at MIF files?

2014-10-06 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:11 -0400 6/10/14, Fred Ridder wrote: Sorry, Craig, but there's nothing to suggest that MIF has any basis in SGML, either. Just goes to show how pioneering the original product was. Afair, its only competitor was Interleaf, which required one 'administrator' per six or so seats. --

Re: Publish fails in Frame 12

2014-10-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:33 -0500 2/10/14, Theresa de Valence wrote: Niels Grundtvig Nielsen suggested the problem might have to do with colour definitions and he discussed his directly modifying the MIF file which solved *his* problem. I've no idea *how* to modify the MIF file, so I'd rather not go there. I

Re: Insets and Tables: container paragraphs with no additional spacing

2014-10-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:23 -0700 2/10/14, Robert Lauriston wrote: What is the benefit of putting a table anchor in its own paragraphs instead of putting the anchor at the end of the preceding paragraph? I've inherited lots of documents that do things like that and it seemed to me like pointless busywork, but the

Re: Correct workflow for dealing with books within books

2014-09-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
Apurva, I see that no-one has replied to your original posting, so here are my thoughts to kick off the discussion... At 19:03 +0530 25/9/14, Apurva Bahadur wrote: I am working on a 200 page FM manual for a client. Currently, the entire manual is one book with several FM files with one TOC.

Re: Finding styles with a space after the name

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:23 +0100 24/9/14, Peter Hirons wrote: See if you can find a tool to delete unused styles - that may shorten your job. SiliconPrairie Paragraph Tools, which Linda already has, can do this. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers

Re: Structured: about containers, other matter and chapter numbering

2014-08-17 Thread Steve Rickaby
I can only hazard a guess at a fraction of this... At 16:56 -0500 17/8/14, Theresa de Valence wrote: In FrameBook, there will also be Front Matter and Back Matter. Can I use the Section element here or should I create a new element called OtherMatter? If you are creating an EDD from scratch

Re: Getting a handle on structured Frame (DITA)

2014-08-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
Theresa Going back to your original posting... Also, my project involves converting two novellas into one ebook. ... it does not sound as if the documents you are working on are structurally complex. Before you give yourself a lot of pain, it might be worth revisiting the issue of whether you

Re: Getting a handle on structured Frame

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
and whether it's worthwhile for you. -- Steve Rickaby http://www.wordmongers.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe

Re: Getting a handle on structured Frame

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
BTW... At 11:08 -0500 12/8/14, Theresa de Valence wrote: I now have ~50 files which are components of my unstructured book file. How would you recommend that I take the contents of those 50 files and move them into the structured book? It doesn't work quite like that: you can't just move from

Re: Getting a handle on structured Frame

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:28 -0500 12/8/14, Theresa de Valence wrote: On 8/12/2014 12:57 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote: Let me know if you'd like a copy of my beginner's guide. At the very least it will give you an idea of the complexity of structure and whether it's worthwhile for you. Steve, you can't imagine how many

Re: Interface issues with Frame 12 in Parallels: SOLVED

2014-08-09 Thread Steve Rickaby
I previously wrote... 2. In a Parallels install of v 12 under Win7, online help is completely unusable: everything appears in a single column even if the dialog is widened. Base machine is a Mac Pro running Mavericks. Any chance of your team picking this up, Vikram? All graphics are

Re: Interface issues with Frame 12 in Parallels

2014-08-05 Thread Steve Rickaby
Mavericks. Any chance of your team picking this up, Vikram? All graphics are distorted, all contents skewed off to the left. If the help window is widened, all text collapses into a narrow column about one word wide. -- Steve Rickaby BSc MBCS CITP MISTC http://www.linkedin.com/in/steverickaby

Interface issues with Frame 12 in Parallels

2014-08-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
I am newly experiencing the joys of v 12 in Parallels, moving from v 7 on Mac (irony intentional). 1. I am left-handed, and prefer dialogs/pods on the left. Is there any way to enforce this without the document being covered by pods? I am asking this question here because of item 2. 2. In a

Re: Problems with documents imported from Word

2014-07-29 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:15 -0500 29/7/14, Theresa de Valence wrote: What do I do to clean up files which originate in Word or PDF. I'm turning crime fiction novels into ebooks and have run into a few problems. Well, Word is a crime, and mostly fiction, that's for sure ;-) Case 1: I import simple Word files into

Re: Mif2Go, DITA2Go, uDoc2Go: now open source

2014-07-26 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:08 -0700 26/7/14, Carolyn Stallard wrote: Omni Systems is closed. As Jeremy Griffith wished, source code will be made available for all three software tools. Scott Prentice has very kindly agreed to set up projects for this purpose on SourceForge. This is all very heart-warming: it's

FM 12 in Parallels using Win7

2014-07-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
I had a quick search but couldn't see that this issue has been discussed recently. I'm in the process of upgrading to FM 12 using Win7 in Parallels on a Mac Pro. My question is simple: which is best, 32-bit Win7 or 64-bit Win7? -- Steve ___ You

Re: FM 12 in Parallels using Win7

2014-07-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 07:16 -0700 13/7/14, Scott Prentice wrote: Go with 64-bit. I know of no reason to use 32. FM 12 runs fine for me in 64. Thanks Scott. Coming from you, I guess this advice counts as 'certified' ;-) -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to

Re: FM 12 in Parallels using Win7

2014-07-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 15:53 -0400 13/7/14, Alan Houser wrote: One warning siren re: Parallels ... you will likely experience a FrameMaker crash when horizontally scrolling an unsaved file. I've learned Don't do that, but it's still sometimes frustrating. The issue has recently come to Adobe's attention here on

Re: FM 12 in Parallels using Win7

2014-07-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:31 -0700 13/7/14, Scott Prentice wrote: Ah yes .. my experience with this is through Fusion, but I'm quite sure that the 64/32-bit question is the same for both virtualization options. At the time I made this switch (7 years ago), Fusion was generally considered the better choice, and it

Re: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
Klaus and others I admit that I have not been following this thread too closely, although I've had similar issues with EOLs in FrameMaker in the past. However, where regexp work is concerned, there is an alternative, which might be practical if what's required is a batch on-off cleanup: work

Re: Conditional cells in a straddled table row

2014-06-30 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 15:51 +0100 30/6/14, Samantha Nair wrote: In reality, this is a large table and I have this scenario repeated at various points, so I would like to avoid changing the layout where possible, but am resigned to the fact that I may have to. It sounds like a nightmare. If only have one

Re: Frame crash on Windows under parallels

2014-06-24 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:57 -0400 24/6/14, Art Campbell wrote: But you guys are complaining about buggy behavior in an operating environment, an emulator, that is not supported by Adobe. I'm sure this is true, Art, but I'm also fairly sure that it's an operating environment that Adobe would nevertheless wish to

Re: Jeremy Griffith has left us

2014-06-11 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:56 -0400 7/6/14, John Sgammato wrote: Mif2go creator Jeremy Griffith died on May 15th after a long illness. This is sad news indeed. If anyone is able to pass on our deepest sympathies to his family, I'm sure we'd all be grateful for that, as we all are for all his hard work, dedication

RE: FrameMaker 12 Cloud

2014-05-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
by changing user interfaces and capabilities without warning - not to mention, er..., causing disruption to productivity (modesty forbids me from putting this more strongly, although I'd like to). Just my 10c. -- Steve Rickaby BSc MBCS CITP MISTC http://www.linkedin.com/in/steverickaby

RE: making stuff unconditional in FM12

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:21 +1200 9/4/14, rebecca officer wrote: Second, Kapil Verma, the FM product manager, emailed me off-list to discuss the functionality, and let me know they'll be adding a button in the conditional text pod to make stuff unconditional. He also explained why the checkboxes behave like they

RE: making stuff unconditional in FM12

2014-03-30 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 23:08 + 29/3/14, Zimmerman, Gary wrote: Sorry to rant. I LIKE FM. I'm just so sorry they messed with the GUI and messed up so badly with 9 and onwards. They may fix it to be decent again incrementally, but like Windows 8, they should have scrapped the whole thing when they realized

Re: Annotating text in a cross-ref in a PDF

2014-03-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:29 -0600 27/3/14, Carol J. Elkins wrote: I'm generating PDFs out of Frame 11 and opening them in Acrobat 11 Pro in a Windows environment. I've discovered that the text in cross-references created in Framemaker cannot be annotated in Acrobat using the Strikethrough Text tool or the Insert

Re: Not black

2014-03-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 20:40 + 22/3/14, Steve Rickaby wrote: At 13:26 -0700 22/3/14, Matt Sullivan wrote: Not directly, but if you set View - color - View to hide black that would make it easier to search Neat idea: thanks... Why is it that the weirdest things happen when you're up against a deadline? Now

Re: Not black

2014-03-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:26 -0700 22/3/14, Matt Sullivan wrote: Not directly, but if you set View - color - View to hide black that would make it easier to search Neat idea: thanks. Craig Johnson also suggested cutting a PDF and using Acrobat's preflighting to check for plate count. This also works, but is

Re: TOC format that won't go away

2014-03-18 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:19 + 18/3/14, Thomas Scalise wrote: I suspect that there is a precise order of kill shots that are necessary to rid me of this troublesome nitĀŠbut I cannot figure out what that should be. Can someone put me out of my misery? Please? Thanks in advance. The only way I can see that

Re: Turkish Font Issue

2014-03-17 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:21 -0500 14/3/14, Alan Salo (Ariens Plant 1) wrote: When using Adobe Distiller to print a Turkish-language file to a PDF we have font errors where certain characters do not distill correctly and appear as boxes. The fonts used in the FrameMaker file are Arial and Arial Unicode and they

Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Rickaby
I am assuming that artwork created with FrameMaker's internal graphics editor is a closed book, i.e. cannot be extracted and reworked in an external application. If anyone knows differently, or has been through this sort of exercise, I'd be grateful to hear about it. My primitive tests so far

Re: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Rickaby
Many thanks to Heiko Haida for the solution here: generate PDFs of the graphics, which are (somewhat amazingly) then completely editable in Illustrator. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list

Re: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:53 -0400 11/3/14, Art Campbell wrote: They'll work fine in Photoshop too, if you want to go that route -- I prefer it for charts, screen shots and so on. I guess, although I don't use Photoshop. ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl.

RE: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:08 -0500 11/3/14, Craig Ede wrote: But you wouldn't be editing screen shots, would you? No - in this instance is it most likely to be line art originated in FrameMaker's graphics editor that need to be improved. For extracting whole graphics like those, it might be better to do a saveAs

Re: Unable to allocate ... bytes for color profile

2014-03-06 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:19 +0200 6/3/14, Robert CH Shell wrote: Any clues what went wrong here? %%[ Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand: setdistillerparams ]%% %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% Unable to allocate 557168 bytes for color profile U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 %%[ Warning:

Re: Spell-checking not foolproof

2014-03-05 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:45 +1300 5/3/14, rebecca officer wrote: Check the character format and make sure the dictionary settings are right. If it's set to none it won't get checked. At 09:17 + 5/3/14, Harro de Jong wrote: Are you sure the paragraph or character format of that word doesn't have its language

RE: Round-trip revisions via MS Word. Alternate methods?

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 21:18 + 3/3/14, a...@ant-davey.com wrote: Getting them to use a restrictive number of formats is just the first step towards structured authoring. The ones that really have me tearing my hair out are those who use Heading 1 and maybe Heading 2 and then every subhead below that is

Spell-checking not foolproof

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
A typo in the book I'm working on spelled 'upwardss'. It goes through spell checking just fine. So I told FrameMaker to unlearn 'upwardss', and it said it had. But it still didn't trigger a spelling violation. ?? -- Steve ___ You are currently

RE: Round-trip revisions via MS Word. Alternate methods?

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:36 + 3/3/14, Harding, Dan wrote: Anything proprietary, that requires a major learning curve, or an additional software purchase/install would not work well at all. With all respect to Rebecca, in that case I would be very cautious about LaTeX. Yes, it's free, and yes, it works, but

RE: Round-trip revisions via MS Word. Alternate methods?

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:57 -0800 3/3/14, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: Agreed that LaTeX has a steep learning curve and, in this WYSIWYG world, it may seem like a step backward to some people. However, the power and flexibility (with highly consistent formatted output) is very appealing in

RE: Round-trip revisions via MS Word. Alternate methods?

2014-02-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:40 -0500 22/2/14, Rick Quatro wrote: Mif2Go by Omsys is a much better way to get good Word output from FrameMaker. They will tell you that there is no good tool for round-tripping between Word and FrameMaker, but if you are doing it anyway, you might as well make the Frame to Word side as

RE: FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?

2014-02-05 Thread Steve Rickaby
Could you not fix your issue by putting all the text to be cross-referenced in a separate file, then importing it wherever you want it? This would give you single-sourcing, *and* preserve formatting. I've tried this with a file containing character markup and a hypertext marker, and both are

RE: FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?

2014-02-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:56 -0700 4/2/14, Carol J. Elkins wrote: Best practice for setting up character formats is to set everything As Is except the feature that you want the character tag to control. That would include setting the Font Family to As Is. So for Emphasis, for example, the font family would be set

RE: FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?

2014-02-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:08 -0600 4/2/14, Craig Ede wrote: The essence of the workaround that was described is based on the fact that font family changes are respected in xrefs (try formatting part of a line with WingDings, for instance). Thus the kludge that allows you to define a family that incorporates

Using a character format for only some pages in an index

2014-01-31 Thread Steve Rickaby
Could someone remind me how to do this, or even whether it's possible in Frame? I've looked in the manual, but can't find the information. What I need to do is get Frame to apply a boldface font to some page numbers, but not all, for an index entry. To illustrate... T Thing 2, 7, 23,

RE: Using a character format for only some pages in an index

2014-01-31 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:21 + 31/1/14, Bain, Thomas wrote: You almost have it. In the index marker, use Bold, assuming you have a character tag named Bold set to what you want for emphasis. For example: First Aid:SituationsBold. This will only apply to the page number for this particular entry. Ah.. right:

RE: Using a character format for only some pages in an index

2014-01-31 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:41 + 31/1/14, Bain, Thomas wrote: Yes, the bold goes last in the index marker. Both of your last two examples are correct. Many thanks, Thomas. I do indexing about once in eighteen months, and that seems to be just long enough to forget these sorts of tricks. -- Steve

Windows versions for FrameMaker 10

2014-01-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
Tammy's posting has reminded me of a question I meant to ask, but I guess she's answered it by default (i.e. FrameMaker 10 works on Windows 7 64-bit). As I will be moving to FrameMaker 10 (or 12) for Windows this year, using Windows under virtualization on Mac OS X, does it matter whether you

RE: End-of-flow wildcard? [footnote to the Word/Frame/ligature story]

2014-01-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
In e-mails from the authors, read here as pure text, ligatures such as 'fi' and 'fl' appear as 'I dunno' characters: blank squares. When pasted into FrameMaker, the ligatures render correctly. However, FrameMaker puts a word break around them: for example, double-clicking on 'flow' highlights

RE: End-of-flow wildcard? [footnote to the Word/Frame/ligature story]

2014-01-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:39 + 27/1/14, Steve Rickaby wrote: Running a global find/replace on 'fl' and 'fi' and replacing them with themselves, i.e. 'f' and 'l' or 'f'' and 'i' typed into the Replace box, fixes the issue: FrameMaker can find the ligatures and correctly replace them with the relevant two

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:11 + 23/1/14, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: Fortunately I never experienced something like this. What I would do immediately before closing files or FrameMaker: Copy the whole folder to a temp folder. If FrameMaker does not work correctly, it could also damage the files when closing. Good

RE: Now OT, I suppose. RE: Adobe pricing policies (was: FrameMaker 12 released)

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:28 -0800 22/1/14, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: The unhappy ones are probably the small users - like myself - who helped FrameMaker become what it is and Adobe *clearly* does not care about us anymore. That is unlike the founders of Frame Technology who I met many years

Re: Subject: RE: OT: Adobe Acrobat Pro and Adobe Reader on same client

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:05 -0600 23/1/14, Davis, David wrote: If you have Windows 8, it comes with Microsoft HyperV built in, you can create a virtual machine with a few clicks, install Reader in it, and play away to your hearts content. (Shock news: Windows 8 actually does have some useful new features in it,

FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At some point while editing yesterday, and I'm not sure what I was doing, *every chapter* in the book I'm working on started displaying all its text as if someone had picked it up and randomly scattered it across the page - complete loss of vertical leading, and sideways shifts as well. It was

Re: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:10 -0500 23/1/14, John Sgammato wrote: I've seen it once or twice in the past 20 years - closing and restarting FM worked. Then our statistics match, John - for me, once in 21 years ;-) I attribute it to sunspots. Or in my case, possible cat fur. -- Steve

Re: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:16 -0800 23/1/14, David Spreadbury wrote: Occasionally my FrameMaker display will go a little berserk. Nothing as serious, so far, as you relate, but similar. Also, there are times when I will delete a graphic, but it remains on the screen, and I know I deleted it. It may be due to a

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:42 -0800 23/1/14, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: Since then, I have relied on two things: DropBox is my friend ;-) -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

Re: Now OT, I suppose. RE: Adobe pricing policies (was: FrameMaker 12 released)

2014-01-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 07:49 -0800 22/1/14, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: Financial success by large companies is not the only measure of success that matters. It is why in my 35+ years of work, I have chosen to do many small startups and try to only work for small companies. My current startup

Now OT, I suppose. RE: Adobe pricing policies (was: FrameMaker 12 released)

2014-01-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 07:49 -0800 22/1/14, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote: >Financial success by large companies is not the only measure of success that >matters. It is why in my 35+ years of work, I have chosen to do many small >startups and try to only work for small companies. My current

Re: FrameMaker 12: e-publishing options

2014-01-21 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:55 -0800 20/1/14, Matt Sullivan wrote: While I've not yet used the Fm12 output for ePub yet, it's very much based on the Fm to Rh workflow in TCS4. I expect it to work as smoothly (very smoothly) as when I published my book last year, and without requiring an Rh installation **Since I

FrameMaker 12: e-publishing options

2014-01-21 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:55 -0800 20/1/14, Matt Sullivan wrote: >While I've not yet used the Fm12 output for ePub yet, it's very much based on >the Fm to Rh workflow in TCS4. I expect it to work as smoothly (very smoothly) >as when I published my book last year, and without requiring an Rh installation > >**Since

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 21:25 -0500 19/1/14, Rick Quatro wrote: The FrameMaker Word import filter leaves a line-feed character at the end of each paragraph. You can't see it, but it is there and apparently affects your search. I routinely strip them out in my scripts. A MIF-wash should remove them. Thanks Rick -

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 18:51 -0800 19/1/14, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: A slow process (would take me a day or two for around less than 100 page documents), but resulted in cleaner FM files ultimately. Also gave me a chance to read the document and verify what I wanted it to say and look like.

FrameMaker 12: e-publishing options

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:16 + 17/1/14, Maxwell Hoffmann wrote: Early Reviews for #Adobe Tech Comm Suite 5 and FrameMaker 12 from TechWhirl - http://bit.ly/1cy87qchttp://bit.ly/1cy87qc The thing that really caught my eye here was the ability to output to ePub and Kindle. I would be *very* interested in any

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:03 -0500 20/1/14, Fred Ridder wrote: But in the current XML-based Word file format (.docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm extensions used in Word 2007 and later) does not use the same embed formatting in the pilcrow technique. Instead, the single file you see is actually a zip archive that contains

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:20 -0500 20/1/14, Fred Ridder wrote: There are two areas of improvements in Word versions from 2007 onwards that probably should be of interest to you because they can have a direct effect on the problem you described in your previous message. Those improvements relate to Unicode fonts

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:13 -0500 20/1/14, Fred Ridder wrote: Are either of you using Rick Quatro's TableCleaner plug-in? Nope. All those wonderful plug-ins will become available to me when I get a box that will run my copy of FrameMaker 10 (trip to local Apple Store to talk to a guru scheduled for March).

End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 21:25 -0500 19/1/14, Rick Quatro wrote: >The FrameMaker Word import filter leaves a line-feed character at the end of >each paragraph. You can't see it, but it is there and apparently affects >your search. I routinely strip them out in my scripts. A MIF-wash should >remove them. Thanks Rick -

End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 18:51 -0800 19/1/14, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote: >A slow process (would take me a day or two for around less than 100 page >documents), but resulted in cleaner FM files ultimately. Also gave me a chance >to read the document and verify what I wanted it to say and look

FrameMaker 12: e-publishing options

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:16 + 17/1/14, Maxwell Hoffmann wrote: >Early Reviews for #Adobe Tech Comm Suite 5 and FrameMaker 12 from TechWhirl - >http://bit.ly/1cy87qc The thing that really caught my eye here was the ability to output to ePub and Kindle. I would be *very* interested in

End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:03 -0500 20/1/14, Fred Ridder wrote: >But in the current XML-based Word file format (.docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm >extensions used in Word 2007 and later) does not use the same "embed >formatting in the pilcrow" technique. Instead, the single file you see is >actually a zip archive that

End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:20 -0500 20/1/14, Fred Ridder wrote: >There are two areas of improvements in Word versions from 2007 onwards that >probably should be of interest to you because they can have a direct effect on >the problem you described in your previous message. Those improvements relate >to Unicode

End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:13 -0500 20/1/14, Fred Ridder wrote: >Are either of you using Rick Quatro's TableCleaner plug-in? Nope. All those wonderful plug-ins will become available to me when I get a box that will run my copy of FrameMaker 10 (trip to local Apple Store to talk to a guru scheduled for March).

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-19 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:53 -0600 18/1/14, Craig Ede wrote: /f, isn't it? It may well be, but if so, this isn't implemented in my ancient version (7). I'll be moving to Framemaker 10 sometime this year, but not for the current job. Just have to do it manually [sigh]. Thanks anyway though. -- Steve

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-19 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:07 -0600 19/1/14, Craig Ede wrote: Hmmm, I know I used it for searches in that version. Let me look into it on my old laptop. For FM 10 it's \f. Wildcards don't have to be on. This is getting more interesting. \f does work in FrameMaker 7, but it only finds some instances of the '.\f'

RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-19 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:56 -0600 19/1/14, Craig Ede wrote: Well, I'm getting an even more peculiar result in FM7.0p579 The search dialog gives me an error saying I need to have text in the search box when I look for \f alone. How odd. FM7.0p577 for Mac here, and it works just fine. (I didn't know there was a

End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-19 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:53 -0600 18/1/14, Craig Ede wrote: >/f, isn't it? It may well be, but if so, this isn't implemented in my ancient version (7). I'll be moving to Framemaker 10 sometime this year, but not for the current job. Just have to do it manually [sigh]. Thanks anyway though. -- Steve

End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-19 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:07 -0600 19/1/14, Craig Ede wrote: >Hmmm, I know I used it for searches in that version. Let me look into it on >my old laptop. > >For FM 10 it's \f. Wildcards don't have to be on. This is getting more interesting. \f does work in FrameMaker 7, but it only finds some instances of the

End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-19 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:56 -0600 19/1/14, Craig Ede wrote: >Well, I'm getting an even more peculiar result in FM7.0p579 >The search dialog gives me an error saying I need to have text in the search >box when I look for \f alone. How odd. FM7.0p577 for Mac here, and it works just fine. (I didn't know there was a

End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-18 Thread Steve Rickaby
Anyone know if there is one? My docs don't mention it, only '$', which ain't the same thing at all. I need to find table cell contents that end with a '.' when they shouldn't (in a fairly large reference list). Speaking of ends of flows, I've been reading the correspondence on Adobe's pricing,

End-of-flow wildcard?

2014-01-18 Thread Steve Rickaby
Anyone know if there is one? My docs don't mention it, only '$', which ain't the same thing at all. I need to find table cell contents that end with a '.' when they shouldn't (in a fairly large reference list). Speaking of ends of flows, I've been reading the correspondence on Adobe's pricing,

Request for EDD training material

2014-01-16 Thread Steve Rickaby
I'm forwarding this for an ISTC member. If anyone can point me/her in the direction of more up-to-date material than I used quite a few years ago, it would be a great help. I used the EDD training course from Scriptorium, but a quick scan of their website failed to reveal same. If anyone from

Request for EDD training material

2014-01-16 Thread Steve Rickaby
I'm forwarding this for an ISTC member. If anyone can point me/her in the direction of more up-to-date material than I used quite a few years ago, it would be a great help. I used the EDD training course from Scriptorium, but a quick scan of their website failed to reveal same. If anyone from

Re: Bizarre mouse behavior with FrameMaker

2013-12-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 21:15 -0600 26/12/13, qui...@airmail.net wrote: Did you examine the Logitech software for the mouse? Or is it not installed? Not installed: I use USB Overdrive for all mouse control. I have been using it for years and it's never given me any problems. If you are using only USB Overdrive,

Bizarre mouse behavior with FrameMaker

2013-12-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 21:15 -0600 26/12/13, wrote: >Did you examine the Logitech software for the mouse? Or is it not installed? Not installed: I use USB Overdrive for all mouse control. I have been using it for years and it's never given me any problems. > If you are using only USB Overdrive, then perhaps the

Text flow around shrink-wrapped equations

2013-12-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
Could someone remind this idiot how to ensure that body text doesn't overlay an inline shrinkwrapped equation? It's a long time since I've had to use the equation editor, and the user guide doesn't offer any help. I have a fraction, the denominator of which is being overlaid by the text line

Re: Text flow around shrink-wrapped equations [fixed, sort of]

2013-12-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
Thanks to Roger and Klaus for illuminating me. This is maybe the only time I'd wished I was using InDesign instead of FrameMaker :-( -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet] ___ You are currently subscribed to framers

Text flow around shrink-wrapped equations

2013-12-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
Could someone remind this idiot how to ensure that body text doesn't overlay an inline shrinkwrapped equation? It's a long time since I've had to use the equation editor, and the user guide doesn't offer any help. I have a fraction, the denominator of which is being overlaid by the text line

Text flow around shrink-wrapped equations [fixed, sort of]

2013-12-22 Thread Steve Rickaby
Thanks to Roger and Klaus for illuminating me. This is maybe the only time I'd wished I was using InDesign instead of FrameMaker :-( -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]

Re: Color in PDFs made from FM6

2013-12-21 Thread Steve Rickaby
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:06:06 -0700, Michael Wiesenberg qatfr...@gmail.com wrote: Kindle deprecates PDF because the conversion from PDF to Kindle doesn't retain all formatting features. This made me chuckle. The only book I've been involved with was that was taken to Kindle (not by me) was

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