Color Output Problems

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:51 -0700 26/9/07, Howard Rauch wrote: >That one spot color is the problem. Commercial printers seem to dislike >FrameMaker output for offset printing because, in the printers' view at least, >Frame does a lousy job of handling color output. For the four catalogs, we >have used three printe

Re: Color Output Problems

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:51 -0700 26/9/07, Howard Rauch wrote: >That one spot color is the problem. Commercial printers seem to dislike >FrameMaker output for offset printing because, in the printers' view at least, >Frame does a lousy job of handling color output. For the four catalogs, we >have used three printe

Searching for paragraph tags

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
I am working with a document design that uses lead-in (non-indented) and run-on (indented) paragraph types. The design calls for lead-in paragraphs after figures, tables and so on: run-one paragraphs should only occur after a lead-in or another run-on paragraph. The documents are not structured.

Searching for paragraph tags

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
I am working with a document design that uses lead-in (non-indented) and run-on (indented) paragraph types. The design calls for lead-in paragraphs after figures, tables and so on: run-one paragraphs should only occur after a lead-in or another run-on paragraph. The documents are not structured.

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

2007-09-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:12 +0200 20/9/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: >Make a copy of the file, and delete all par tags except for the one you want >to change. Make the change, then import the par tags from that file (which >should only include one style), to all the files in the book. > >I never tried this for par tag

Re: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

2007-09-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:12 +0200 20/9/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: >Make a copy of the file, and delete all par tags except for the one you want >to change. Make the change, then import the par tags from that file (which >should only include one style), to all the files in the book. > >I never tried this for par tag

Copying with multiple spot color definitions

2007-09-17 Thread Steve Rickaby
I think I may have accidentally come across a simple fix to the following problem, which tripped me up on a previous job in FrameMaker: . You are working on a document or book that uses a spot color for both text and graphics . The final job must print on no more than two plates . The book use

Copying with multiple spot color definitions

2007-09-17 Thread Steve Rickaby
I think I may have accidentally come across a simple fix to the following problem, which tripped me up on a previous job in FrameMaker: . You are working on a document or book that uses a spot color for both text and graphics . The final job must print on no more than two plates . The book use

Tables sorts

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
Rick! Brilliant! You've just saved me hours of copying and pasting. *Many* thanks. At 07:50 -0400 14/9/07, Rick Quatro wrote: >Hi Steve, > >Follow these general steps: > >1) Convert the table to paragraphs. > >2) Convert the table back to a single column table. Do this by selecting the >paragrap

Framers Digest, Vol 23, Issue 13

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Ron Just noticed this, due to digest title. I will certainly look at it, as it will be useful to know for the future. However, the guts of the size problem has now gone away, as I describe below. At 10:23 -0400 13/9/07, rradcliffe at invacare.com wrote: >Check the Illustrator help under the

Tables sorts

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
I am wrestling with tables sorting. I have 2-c tables sorted like this: a e b f c f d h but I have been asked to sort them as... a b c d e f g h None of the sort options I try works. Can anyone advise me? Or do I have to sort the tables by hand?

Re: Tables sorts

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
Rick! Brilliant! You've just saved me hours of copying and pasting. *Many* thanks. At 07:50 -0400 14/9/07, Rick Quatro wrote: >Hi Steve, > >Follow these general steps: > >1) Convert the table to paragraphs. > >2) Convert the table back to a single column table. Do this by selecting the >paragrap

Re: Framers Digest, Vol 23, Issue 13

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Ron Just noticed this, due to digest title. I will certainly look at it, as it will be useful to know for the future. However, the guts of the size problem has now gone away, as I describe below. At 10:23 -0400 13/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Check the Illustrator help under the "Transpa

Tables sorts

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
I am wrestling with tables sorting. I have 2-c tables sorted like this: a e b f c f d h but I have been asked to sort them as... a b c d e f g h None of the sort options I try works. Can anyone advise me? Or do I have to sort the tables by hand?

Numbering steams and flows

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:20 -0400 12/9/07, Stuart Rogers wrote: >Steve Rickaby wrote: > >>I am forced to mix 1-column and 2-column layouts. I cannot use >>tables, as the existing 1-c material that must go into 2-c already >>contains tables. >> >>As we know from previous disc

Table Cell Alignment

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:01 -0400 13/9/07, Stuart Rogers wrote: >Just to ensure absolute clarity: Richard said to double-check the Table Cell >tab of the *Paragraph* designer; you say you checked the "table definition," >which implies the Table designer. You have checked both places, right? Just to underline wh

Numbering steams and flows: solved

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:14 -0400 13/9/07, Stuart Rogers wrote: >> I am still, however, surprised that number streams reset >>at the start of a flow within the same document, although I suppose >>it makes some sort of sense. >> > >It makes a lot of sense if you suppose that the original purpose of multiple >flows i

Re: Numbering steams and flows

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:20 -0400 12/9/07, Stuart Rogers wrote: >Steve Rickaby wrote: > >>I am forced to mix 1-column and 2-column layouts. I cannot use >>tables, as the existing 1-c material that must go into 2-c already >>contains tables. >> >>As we know from previous disc

Re: Table Cell Alignment

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:01 -0400 13/9/07, Stuart Rogers wrote: >Just to ensure absolute clarity: Richard said to double-check the Table Cell >tab of the *Paragraph* designer; you say you checked the "table definition," >which implies the Table designer. You have checked both places, right? Just to underline wh

FrameMaker and Illustrator EPS files

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:34 -0500 12/9/07, Peter Gold wrote: >Did you try exporting to PDF? Sometimes the Fill > None doesn't appear on >screen in FM, but does work in PDF. Yes, I did, Peter. All attempts to get this frame to disappear in both FrameMaker and the resulting PDF have so far failed, including: . Set

Numbering steams and flows: solved

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:13 +0100 12/9/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: >As we know from previous discussions here, the column layout is a flow >property rather than a page property, so I must use a B flow for the 2-c >material. > >My question is, is there any way of preventing numbering streams from &

Re: Numbering steams and flows: solved

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:14 -0400 13/9/07, Stuart Rogers wrote: >> I am still, however, surprised that number streams reset >>at the start of a flow within the same document, although I suppose >>it makes some sort of sense. >> > >It makes a lot of sense if you suppose that the original purpose of multiple >flows i

Re: FrameMaker and Illustrator EPS files

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:34 -0500 12/9/07, Peter Gold wrote: >Did you try exporting to PDF? Sometimes the Fill > None doesn't appear on >screen in FM, but does work in PDF. Yes, I did, Peter. All attempts to get this frame to disappear in both FrameMaker and the resulting PDF have so far failed, including: . Set

Re: Numbering steams and flows: solved

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:13 +0100 12/9/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: >As we know from previous discussions here, the column layout is a flow >property rather than a page property, so I must use a B flow for the 2-c >material. > >My question is, is there any way of preventing numbering streams from &

Numbering steams and flows

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
Am working against the clock with a book that is undergoing last-minute design changes on press day, so I have to use up two question tokens today... I am forced to mix 1-column and 2-column layouts. I cannot use tables, as the existing 1-c material that must go into 2-c already contains tables.

FrameMaker and Illustrator EPS files

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
FrameMaker 7.0, Mac, Illustrator CS2 I have a chapter opener decorative EPS which is about a 4.5 MB Illustrator file and is imported onto the chapter opener master page. Because of FrameMaker's paucity of text effects, the simplest way to implement the required design [a 180 point reversed-out

Numbering steams and flows

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
Am working against the clock with a book that is undergoing last-minute design changes on press day, so I have to use up two question tokens today... I am forced to mix 1-column and 2-column layouts. I cannot use tables, as the existing 1-c material that must go into 2-c already contains tables.

FrameMaker and Illustrator EPS files

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
FrameMaker 7.0, Mac, Illustrator CS2 I have a chapter opener decorative EPS which is about a 4.5 MB Illustrator file and is imported onto the chapter opener master page. Because of FrameMaker's paucity of text effects, the simplest way to implement the required design [a 180 point reversed-out

Tip for top TOC tingles

2007-09-05 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Framers I've just spent about half an hour trying to fox out why an A heading TOC constructor was failing to have any effect whatsoever on the actual formatting of the headings in the TOC. I'd put tabs in and take tabs out until I was blue in the face, but the page numbers resolutely refused

Tip for top TOC tingles

2007-09-05 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Framers I've just spent about half an hour trying to fox out why an A heading TOC constructor was failing to have any effect whatsoever on the actual formatting of the headings in the TOC. I'd put tabs in and take tabs out until I was blue in the face, but the page numbers resolutely refused

Odd maths font problem... solved!

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
A friend suggest the following: 'Are you certain the author is using Symbol for his equations? Other typefaces probably contain math symbols.' He was right. I remembered where to go in the bowels of the Equation Editor to find out the default fonts, and lo! The originator of the documents not us

Odd maths font problem... more

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
Further... if anyone is following this... there appear to two different Symbol fonts: . That installed here with FrameMaker 7.0 on Mac appears to be copyright Apple Computer and also appears to be Unicode . That used by the originator of the documents appears to be copyright Monotype/Type Solu

Re: Odd maths font problem... solved!

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
A friend suggest the following: 'Are you certain the author is using Symbol for his equations? Other typefaces probably contain math symbols.' He was right. I remembered where to go in the bowels of the Equation Editor to find out the default fonts, and lo! The originator of the documents not us

Re: Odd maths font problem... more

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
Further... if anyone is following this... there appear to two different Symbol fonts: . That installed here with FrameMaker 7.0 on Mac appears to be copyright Apple Computer and also appears to be Unicode . That used by the originator of the documents appears to be copyright Monotype/Type Solu

Odd maths font problem... more

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Rickaby
rameMaker document and not with any weird font-type problem. I tried MIF-washing the document in question, but it had no effect. I'm stumped. Anyone any ideas? At 16:58 +0100 2/9/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: >Is anyone aware of an issue that could cause character transposition when

Odd maths font problem... more

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Rickaby
rameMaker document and not with any weird font-type problem. I tried MIF-washing the document in question, but it had no effect. I'm stumped. Anyone any ideas? At 16:58 +0100 2/9/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: >Is anyone aware of an issue that could cause character transposition when

Odd maths font problem

2007-09-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
Dear FramerUsers Is anyone aware of an issue that could cause character transposition when moving FrameMaker documents containing FrameMaker equations from one platform [Windows] to another [Mac]? Some embedded equations have suffered the following character transpositions: . Summation symbols

Odd maths font problem

2007-09-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
Dear FramerUsers Is anyone aware of an issue that could cause character transposition when moving FrameMaker documents containing FrameMaker equations from one platform [Windows] to another [Mac]? Some embedded equations have suffered the following character transpositions: . Summation symbols

OT Re: Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-29 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 20:51 + 28/8/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: >And to complicate things further, the eth and thorn and even an accented y >(which are all parts of the extended ASCII) seem to FrameMaker just as some >space character when it comes to hyphenating. 'Eth' and 'thorn' are letter names in Icelan

Can't save a file in FM 7.2

2007-08-29 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 15:58 -0400 27/8/07, Nina Rogers wrote: >My coworker has a book saved out on a network. I'm working in the same >version of Frame and keep getting this message when I try to save my >work: > >"The document was saved to a temporary file, but FM can't rename it to >have the correct name. The newe

OT Re: Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-29 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 20:51 + 28/8/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: >And to complicate things further, the eth and thorn and even an accented y >(which are all parts of the extended ASCII) seem to FrameMaker just as some >space character when it comes to hyphenating. 'Eth' and 'thorn' are letter names in Icelan

Re: Can't save a file in FM 7.2

2007-08-29 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 15:58 -0400 27/8/07, Nina Rogers wrote: >My coworker has a book saved out on a network. I'm working in the same >version of Frame and keep getting this message when I try to save my >work: > >"The document was saved to a temporary file, but FM can't rename it to >have the correct name. The newe

Another of those Distiller crashes

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
I wrote... >Can anyone shed any light on the possible causes of the following quick close >to the start of distillation of a large (221 MB) Ps book file? > >%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: ?o ]%% >%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% >%%[ Warning: PostScript er

Another of those Distiller crashes

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
Can anyone shed any light on the possible causes of the following quick close to the start of distillation of a large (221 MB) Ps book file? %%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: ?o ]%% %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file p

Learning FrameMaker 7.0 on Mactel (10.4.10) with Parallels/XP Home

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:02 -0500 25/8/07, Noel Lashbrook wrote: >I am curious to know if anyone out there has a similar configuration that is >already running FrameMaker 7.0 successfully. I will be starting a course this >fall to learn the basics of FrameMaker 7.0. Noel: got to the 'FrameMaker for OS X' group: t

Another of those Distiller crashes

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
I wrote... >Can anyone shed any light on the possible causes of the following quick close >to the start of distillation of a large (221 MB) Ps book file? > >%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: ƒo ]%% >%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% >%%[ Warning: PostScript er

Another of those Distiller crashes

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
Can anyone shed any light on the possible causes of the following quick close to the start of distillation of a large (221 MB) Ps book file? %%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: ƒo ]%% %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file p

Re: Learning FrameMaker 7.0 on Mactel (10.4.10) with Parallels/XP Home

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:02 -0500 25/8/07, Noel Lashbrook wrote: >I am curious to know if anyone out there has a similar configuration that is >already running FrameMaker 7.0 successfully. I will be starting a course this >fall to learn the basics of FrameMaker 7.0. Noel: got to the 'FrameMaker for OS X' group: t

Odd symbol: hyphenation suppression?

2007-08-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
>If you consult Appendix A (Typing in Dialog Boxes), you will see that >the backslash-underscore string is indeed the way you type the >suppress hyphenation code in a dialog box Thanks Fred. -- Steve

Odd symbol: hyphenation suppression?

2007-08-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
I am working on a book in which some letter pairs are underlined when 'view symbols' is enabled. I don't recall having noticed this symbol before, so I looked it up, and the user guide suggests that it indicates hyphenation suppression [presumably manually applied?] What strikes me as odd is th

RE: Odd symbol: hyphenation suppression?

2007-08-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
>If you consult Appendix A (Typing in Dialog Boxes), you will see that >the backslash-underscore string is indeed the way you type the >suppress hyphenation code in a dialog box Thanks Fred. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as

Odd symbol: hyphenation suppression?

2007-08-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
I am working on a book in which some letter pairs are underlined when 'view symbols' is enabled. I don't recall having noticed this symbol before, so I looked it up, and the user guide suggests that it indicates hyphenation suppression [presumably manually applied?] What strikes me as odd is th

Combining side-heads and full-span paras in the same document

2007-08-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
The title says what I need to do. There seem to be two ways of doing this: a. Set up left/right master pages with a sidehead margin and separate left/right master pages without sidehead space for the full-span settings, then set up a suitable master pages ref table. b. Set up left/right master

Combining side-heads and full-span paras in the same document

2007-08-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
The title says what I need to do. There seem to be two ways of doing this: a. Set up left/right master pages with a sidehead margin and separate left/right master pages without sidehead space for the full-span settings, then set up a suitable master pages ref table. b. Set up left/right master

OT: Acrobat plug-in information

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rickaby
Apologies for OT posting. I've been trawling the Adobe site looking for information on third-party plug-ins for Acrobat, as there is for example for FrameMaker, but so far have not found anything. . If anyone can point me to an Acrobat site like the Leximation FrameMaker plug-in web pages, I'd

OT: Acrobat plug-in information

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rickaby
Apologies for OT posting. I've been trawling the Adobe site looking for information on third-party plug-ins for Acrobat, as there is for example for FrameMaker, but so far have not found anything. . If anyone can point me to an Acrobat site like the Leximation FrameMaker plug-in web pages, I'd

Heading with autonumber and square bullet

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:48 -0400 9/8/07, Brenda Waltermeyer wrote: >That is exactly what it does (rubbish). I need it to be included in the >numbering string not as a character style. I already have a character style >called ZHeadNum in the Character Format under Numbering tab in the Paragraph >designer. I need to

Heading with autonumber and square bullet

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:14 +0200 9/8/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: >If you don't want to mess with character codes, set your desired bullet >font as a character tag (for example, Dingbats, Wingdings) and use the >character tag in the Automnumber field. This way you can merely use the >letter that corresponds with the c

Re: Heading with autonumber and square bullet

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:48 -0400 9/8/07, Brenda Waltermeyer wrote: >That is exactly what it does (rubbish). I need it to be included in the >numbering string not as a character style. I already have a character style >called ZHeadNum in the Character Format under Numbering tab in the Paragraph >designer. I need to

Re: Heading with autonumber and square bullet

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:14 +0200 9/8/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: >If you don't want to mess with character codes, set your desired bullet >font as a character tag (for example, Dingbats, Wingdings) and use the >character tag in the Automnumber field. This way you can merely use the >letter that corresponds with the c

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

2007-08-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:25 -0700 7/8/07, Valerie Lipow wrote: >If anyone has one or more templates demonstrating the type of Master >pages/Reference pages discussed in the parent subject, if they're not >copyrighted, and if you're authorized and willing to disseminate them to the >group, would you please store a co

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

2007-08-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:25 -0700 7/8/07, Valerie Lipow wrote: >If anyone has one or more templates demonstrating the type of Master >pages/Reference pages discussed in the parent subject, if they're not >copyrighted, and if you're authorized and willing to disseminate them to the >group, would you please store a co

For Unstructured Framemaker users: FM8 migration plans

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:55 -0500 7/8/07, Pinkham, Jim wrote: >LOL. Thanks, Steve :) I'll not restart the tool wars by rising to the >bait on that one. Wise man, wise man ;-) -- Steve

For Unstructured Framemaker users: FM8 migration plans

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:41 -0500 7/8/07, Pinkham, Jim wrote: >(Yes, I know the chorus, "Undo is for wimps!" but I've been spoiled by all >those years in Word... Yeah, Wurd tends to have that effect - but not in the sense you mean ;-) -- Steve

border around a word?

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:04 -0500 7/8/07, Peter Gold wrote: >Text lines accept character tags, but not paragraph tags. I did not know that. Thanks ;-) -- Steve

Foxy stuff on master pages

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Peter At 06:27 -0500 7/8/07, Peter Gold wrote: >On 8/7/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: > >> A way to ensure that the description travels around with the template is to >> add one or more extra reference pages called 'Notes' or somesuch, and put a >> brief pott

RE: For Unstructured Framemaker users: FM8 migration plans

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:55 -0500 7/8/07, Pinkham, Jim wrote: >LOL. Thanks, Steve :) I'll not restart the tool wars by rising to the >bait on that one. Wise man, wise man ;-) -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages

Foxy stuff on master pages

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:06 +0100 7/8/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: >When massing with multiple frames on master pages, it's a lot easier to see >what's going on if you give the various frames a temporary - and different - >fill pattern and/or colored border. When you've finished dickering with

Foxy stuff on master pages

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Framers In off-group discussions with Angela and others, it's become only too clear that it's possible to create clever stuff on master pages that is obvious to its designer but to no-one else ;-) For example, the auto thumbtabs stuff which came up recently on the group, or anything that inv

border around a word?

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:11 -0700 6/8/07, Courtney Collins wrote: >I haven't ever tried this, but what about creating a box on the reference page >and using that instead of the lines that usually appear there? I'm home now, >but I will try ot tomorrow at work if I get time. Not sure if this would work. The purpos

border around a word?

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:24 -0500 6/8/07, Peter Gold wrote: >It is perhaps a little easier to size and position a text line inside >an "inline" anchored frame, than a text frame. You can create the text >with the text line tool (the "A" tool on the Graphics tool panel), and >drag or paste it inside an anchored fram

RE: For Unstructured Framemaker users: FM8 migration plans

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:41 -0500 7/8/07, Pinkham, Jim wrote: >(Yes, I know the chorus, "Undo is for wimps!" but I've been spoiled by all >those years in Word... Yeah, Wurd tends to have that effect - but not in the sense you mean ;-) -- Steve ___ You are currently s

Re: border around a word?

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:04 -0500 7/8/07, Peter Gold wrote: >Text lines accept character tags, but not paragraph tags. I did not know that. Thanks ;-) -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: Foxy stuff on master pages

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Peter At 06:27 -0500 7/8/07, Peter Gold wrote: >On 8/7/07, Steve Rickaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A way to ensure that the description travels around with the template is to >> add one or more extra reference pages called 'Notes' or somesuch, and put

Re: Foxy stuff on master pages

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:06 +0100 7/8/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: >When massing with multiple frames on master pages, it's a lot easier to see >what's going on if you give the various frames a temporary - and different - >fill pattern and/or colored border. When you've finished dickering with

Foxy stuff on master pages

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Framers In off-group discussions with Angela and others, it's become only too clear that it's possible to create clever stuff on master pages that is obvious to its designer but to no-one else ;-) For example, the auto thumbtabs stuff which came up recently on the group, or anything that inv

Re: border around a word?

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:11 -0700 6/8/07, Courtney Collins wrote: >I haven't ever tried this, but what about creating a box on the reference page >and using that instead of the lines that usually appear there? I'm home now, >but I will try ot tomorrow at work if I get time. Not sure if this would work. The purpos

Re: border around a word?

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:24 -0500 6/8/07, Peter Gold wrote: >It is perhaps a little easier to size and position a text line inside >an "inline" anchored frame, than a text frame. You can create the text >with the text line tool (the "A" tool on the Graphics tool panel), and >drag or paste it inside an anchored fram

border around a word?

2007-08-06 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 18:29 +0200 6/8/07, Gunnar Carlsson wrote: >Does anyone know if there is an easy way to put a border around 1-2 words in a >sentence, for example to mark a button. >Example:"Please press ABORT to leave this funcion." Here I would like to >have a thin border around ABORT. It is very s

Re: border around a word?

2007-08-06 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 18:29 +0200 6/8/07, Gunnar Carlsson wrote: >Does anyone know if there is an easy way to put a border around 1-2 words in a >sentence, for example to mark a button. >Example:"Please press ABORT to leave this funcion." Here I would like to >have a thin border around ABORT. It is very s

Book-To-Book Xrefs & File Not Found

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:10 -0700 4/8/07, Angela Akridge wrote: >I use book-to-book xrefs. The xref formats look good. When I update my >books, Frame doesn't complain about broken links. However, after I >generate the pdf and test the book-to-book links, I get an error that >says the file can't be found. When I go t

Re: Book-To-Book Xrefs & File Not Found

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:10 -0700 4/8/07, Angela Akridge wrote: >I use book-to-book xrefs. The xref formats look good. When I update my >books, Frame doesn't complain about broken links. However, after I >generate the pdf and test the book-to-book links, I get an error that >says the file can't be found. When I go t

How Do I Conditionalize an Entire File

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:29 -0700 2/8/07, Angela Akridge wrote: >I have two covers for branding purposes. How do I exclude/include an >entire file using conditional text? I'm able to do this with Epic, but >don't know how to in Frame. Is it an entire file you want to conditionalize, or just the covers? If the latt

Vertical spacing inconsistencies

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:36 -0600 2/8/07, Combs, Richard wrote: >Are you sure you don't have Baseline Synchronization or Feather turned >on (in Format > Page Layout > Line Layout)? I've never used those >features (or Balance Columns in Column Layout), so I'm guessing -- but >they're my primary suspects (actually, my

Vertical spacing inconsistencies

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
Anyone following this thread may remember that I was suffering from inconsistent vertical spacing between headings and following paras when no overrides were active, and that I found that creating a new document and copying selected contents to it removed the problem. I did not find the cause o

Re: How Do I Conditionalize an Entire File

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:29 -0700 2/8/07, Angela Akridge wrote: >I have two covers for branding purposes. How do I exclude/include an >entire file using conditional text? I'm able to do this with Epic, but >don't know how to in Frame. Is it an entire file you want to conditionalize, or just the covers? If the latt

RE: Vertical spacing inconsistencies

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:36 -0600 2/8/07, Combs, Richard wrote: >Are you sure you don't have Baseline Synchronization or Feather turned >on (in Format > Page Layout > Line Layout)? I've never used those >features (or Balance Columns in Column Layout), so I'm guessing -- but >they're my primary suspects (actually, my

Re: Vertical spacing inconsistencies

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
Anyone following this thread may remember that I was suffering from inconsistent vertical spacing between headings and following paras when no overrides were active, and that I found that creating a new document and copying selected contents to it removed the problem. I did not find the cause o

FrameMaker 8 and Plugins

2007-08-01 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 18:14 -0400 31/7/07, John Sgammato wrote: >According to Adobe Support, FM8 docs can't be saved as FM7.2 docs, either. What!! Backward compatibility has been dropped? Who's bright idea was that? At 15:20 -0700 31/7/07, Scott Prentice wrote: >The SaveAs dialog includes FM7.0 as an export optio

RE: FrameMaker 8 and Plugins

2007-07-31 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 18:14 -0400 31/7/07, John Sgammato wrote: >According to Adobe Support, FM8 docs can't be saved as FM7.2 docs, either. What!! Backward compatibility has been dropped? Who's bright idea was that? At 15:20 -0700 31/7/07, Scott Prentice wrote: >The SaveAs dialog includes FM7.0 as an export optio

How To Prevent From Deleting Markers?

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:17 -0700 30/7/07, Angela Akridge wrote: >I'm using Frame/WebWorks to produce manuals and online help. I use so >many different market types. I find that it's quiet easy to >accidentally delete markers. Indeed it is. >I use markers to produce the context-sensitive help, index markers, >hype

Re: How To Prevent From Deleting Markers?

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:17 -0700 30/7/07, Angela Akridge wrote: >I'm using Frame/WebWorks to produce manuals and online help. I use so >many different market types. I find that it's quiet easy to >accidentally delete markers. Indeed it is. >I use markers to produce the context-sensitive help, index markers, >hype

Questions About Structured Frame Applications

2007-07-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
Nancy... At 17:21 -0400 27/7/07, ActionA at aol.com wrote: >A while back I posted some questions about creating a Structured Frame >application so that we can share xml files between Structured Frame and our >XML publishing system that was created in-house. We also have some legacy >material i

Vertical spacing inconsistencies

2007-07-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Peter At 17:33 -0500 27/7/07, Peter Gold wrote: >The Friday thing also struck me, it seems. I never got around to >suggesting what to ACTUALLY DO at the end of my long analytic look at >what possible combined workings of idiosyncratic font height >calculation, line height settings there might

Pantone bug?

2007-07-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Brad At 22:44 -0500 27/7/07, Brad Anderson wrote: >We've printed several 5-color books (CMYK and 1 spot) with several different >vendors in the US, China, and Hong Kong. ... Many thanks for this clarification. I think we were iterating towards this conclusion, but it's good to have confirmat

Re: Pantone bug?

2007-07-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Brad At 22:44 -0500 27/7/07, Brad Anderson wrote: >We've printed several 5-color books (CMYK and 1 spot) with several different >vendors in the US, China, and Hong Kong. ... Many thanks for this clarification. I think we were iterating towards this conclusion, but it's good to have confirmat

Re: Questions About Structured Frame Applications

2007-07-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
Nancy... At 17:21 -0400 27/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >A while back I posted some questions about creating a Structured Frame >application so that we can share xml files between Structured Frame and our >XML publishing system that was created in-house. We also have some legacy >material in

Re: Vertical spacing inconsistencies

2007-07-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
Hi Peter At 17:33 -0500 27/7/07, Peter Gold wrote: >The Friday thing also struck me, it seems. I never got around to >suggesting what to ACTUALLY DO at the end of my long analytic look at >what possible combined workings of idiosyncratic font height >calculation, line height settings there might

Vertical spacing inconsistencies [more]

2007-07-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:19 -0500 27/7/07, Peter Gold wrote: >I hope I understand your meaning. If you mean that the inter-paragraph >space varies for the same consecutive paragraphs formats, depending on >where they are within a column or text frame, perhaps one or more of >these options are turned on: Format > Cus

Vertical spacing inconsistencies

2007-07-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:19 -0500 27/7/07, Peter Gold wrote: >I'm not aware of bugs in this area (but there could be). > >I hope I understand your meaning. If you mean that the inter-paragraph >space varies for the same consecutive paragraphs formats, depending on >where they are within a column or text frame,... I

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