Keyboard shortcuts stop working

ries suddenly appear in Cyrillic :-) sr -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home, and when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway." - anon.

Importing PPT slideshows

'd have a problem -- but that would be true in any application that imports by reference. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home, and when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway." - anon.

fixed vs. relative paths in xrefs

welcome. > Search for XRefSrcFile. Good luck, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home, and when he grows up, he'll never

Archive Plug-in - "No documents found in current book"

uot; > > (Ellipses indicate shortened length of real location of files.) > > Thoughts as to why this is not archiving or recognizing the other files > in the book? > That looks like a network path; you probably have a problem with either access rights or network speed. This doesn

Numbering steams and flows

, then adding a text frame inside that to hold the inner table). PS: was that a Freudian slip in the subject line? ;-) Good luck! -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "It is not enoug

Table Cell Alignment

t it's slightly too high; in the shortest row, the difference is more obvious. You could centre an asterisk as a text line in a small anchored frame (maybe tweaking the A-frame's Distance above baseline), then copy/paste into your cells. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoe

Memory Leak

ot of crashes? What other programs are running at the same time? How often do you reboot Windoze? -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "It is not enough that I succeed. Others must fail." -- Oscar Wilde

Table Cell Alignment

," which implies the Table designer. You have checked both places, right? (If you're still stuck and want to send me the table off-list, I'll see if I can spot anything...) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-73

Numbering steams and flows: solved

flows in a book situation, it's more likely to be as a work-around for some unusual situation, and it's not surprising that the numbering restart doesn't suit; it wasn't designed for that use. Don't let Frame's numbering get you "steamed"; remember, you

unresolved xref and making master pages stick

es the 2 col layout gets applied to > the wrong page. How do I attach the 2 col layout to only the > designated pages? > See the Help topic, "Assigning master pages to body pages containing paragraph tags". (...Assuming you have a recent version of FM.) Best, -- Stuart Rogers T

Another Frame 8 bug--reversed Smart Quotes

en more tedious. Is there any way to specify which quote > marks I want to search for (opening or closing)? > According to the Help topic "Typing in Dialog Boxes", a backslash followed by a grave accent will find double left quotes, ie, opening smart quotes. Is that how you&#x

Taking a screen shot with the cursor

e the pointer, AFAIK. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com I'll stop saying Microsoft is arrogant when Windows stops saying "Welcome" and instead asks "May I?"

OT: Acrobat 8 freezes Frame after motherboard rebuild

e list? If no, Add Port, Local Port, named FILE: (with the colon). Reselect the previously selected port. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com I'll stop saying Microsoft is arrogant when Windows stops saying "Welcome" and instead asks "May I?"

Menu name

pand or collapse these structures to see more or fewer subentries. A plus sign next to a folder indicates that it can be expanded to show more folders; a minus sign indicates that it can be collapsed." Does that help? -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited

equation preferences

. > Please reinstall MathType. > > How do I make Frame my equation editor again? > Check your maker.ini file. I think you need a line in the Files section that says EquationDoc=fminit\configui\Equation HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON

Paragraph Designer - Next Pgf Tag

emember a recent discussion that concluded the Next pgf tag function only works properly when the previous pgf is not empty. Type some text, then press Enter, and you get the correct Next pgf. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-

Stuck on Figure Autonumbering in a Multi-Document Chapter

previous page in book > > Paragraph -- continue numbering from previous paragraph in book Grasping at straws -- have you gone into each file's pgf Designer, with your cursor on a Figure caption, and clicked Update All? HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Lim

Microsoft XP support

-geophysics.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoeni

Microsoft XP support

already most unusual that MS is still allowing XP to be sold when its successor has been on the market for so long. We all knew that XP would disappear when Vista arrived -- we shouldn't expect any more difficulties than were experienced when previous OS versions were superceded. best, -- St

Table continued variable not always working

r if I've tried this or not -- does a non-breaking space before the variable cause an automatic wrap? s. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "It is not enough that I succeed. Others must fail." -- Oscar Wilde

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

l printers' drivers often report their resident fonts to the operating system, which then treats them as though they are locally installed. That can cause font errors in FM. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340

User Defined Hotkeys

Inc > 585-659-8267 > www.frameexpert.com Also, you may find the shortcuts to re-apply the last char/pgf tag useful: Esc cc for char Esc jj for pgf -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics

Connection between Table Designer and Paragraph Designer?

not the line that you see there, but the frame that contains the line. By default, the frame has a white fill. If you select the frame and change its fill to None, you will solve the problem. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416

How can I use variables in the autonumber format of paragraphs?

$volnum variable for any other purpose, you could use it for this. >> >> Rick If you need $volnum for something else, you could achieve your output by putting your RevNum variable in a run-in paragraph that is defined to have an autonumbered paragraph as Next pgf. (More eff

Paragraph catalog sort order

erent character set for my OS (Windows XP Pro SP2). > > Fred Ridder Fred, Have a look at Control Panel > Regional and Language Options, Advanced tab. I'm not sure what you need to change there, but I think the Code page conversion tables are what Peter is referring t

Blank Pages in Online Help

ges set, blank pages may remain if they contain invisible items like empty frames or text lines, or if they use any master page other than default left/right. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geo

Tab issue with FrameMaker 8

on falls within the body-page's text-frame width. > > * Verify that no nearby body- or master-page graphic or text frame > has its runaround property ON - this can force the text to the left, > which simulates the tab failing. > > * Regenerate the TOC. > > I'm out o

OT: correct symbol to use

of "to any of 1(a) to 1(c)," but otherwise suggest: "to any of 1 (a-c)" where "-" is an en-dash. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "A man's screech should exceed his rasp, or what's a violin for?" --another Rogers Original

Your callout philosophy

ers in those table cells and put the explanatory text below the figure in a separate table or caption. The translated text can grow or shrink as much as necessary without messing up the callouts. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 49

How can I highlight/shade text ?

egative 12 Space Below, and the Reversed tag to negative 12 Space Above, non-Fixed Lined Spacing. Play around with these settings to see what effects you can achieve. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-g

macros and keyboard shortcuts

hen, I used QuickMacros, an excellent Windows macro programming utility - > which worked rather well with FrameMaker (v6, I believe). > I'm on 7.0, and there's no macros; haven't heard mention of them in 8.x either. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics

Fixing lots of X-refs

the other form elements. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "A man's screech should exceed his rasp, or what's a violin for?" --another Rogers Original

keep with next para

property to add the separator line, and I would specify a large number of Widow/Orphan lines on the pagination tab. My test document in FM 7.0 does not break a pgf at a soft return with Orphans set to 5, so I think that would work with your one or two line situation. HTH, -- Stuart Ro

Working with Images

and the size of FM's on-screen approximation). Best regards, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com If it makes things work more easily, why isn't it called lubrican?

Duplicating a two-page section

point where you want the duplicate to appear and press Ctrl-V. Use the Paragraph Designer to set the pagination properties of your procedures' first paragraph to Start At Top of Page. (If you still run into problems, send me your file off list and I'll sort it out for you.) HTH, -- Stu

page layout for a double-wide table

ting a titled empty table above the real one, and autonumber the real one with its own series label that is not used elsewhere, so as not to disrupt the numbering of other tables in the book. Caveat: This suggestion is not called "lubrican". ;-) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communica

Working with Images

rent from a screen capture, which is a raster image with a fixed number of pixels. "Jaggies" are unavoidable when rectangular pixels are used to create angled lines. They're just less visible with higher-res files, though they are still there. HTH! -- Stuart Rogers Technical Commu

PDF email links

her (Frame 7.2) >> >> >> >> Is this possible and what is the format? >> >> >> >> Is there a way to populate the subject line with context relevant >> information, such as the current topic title? >> >> >> >> Thanks in ad

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

Mike Wickham wrote: > Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It came > through silent. :) > Stop that. You're making my fillings hurt. :) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340

Annoying FrameMaker Question

m with it. The file you want to BACKUP!! before modifying is fmdlg.dll in C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\fminit\ http://www.snapfiles.com/get/resourcehacker.html (There are lots of other source URLs, just google it.) best, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto

Archive searching and moving text inset files

27;t suit, you can simply move the folder to your preferred location, and when you open the FM files again, tell Frame to look in the new location for all files. The plug-in is only $25, and well worth it. http://www.leximation.com/toolsearch/?dev=BFP HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator

Question about TOC, LOF, LOT

case, Deirdre, once you generate the LOF and LOT, you will of course add some sort of heading pgf for each. Just add those heading tags to the Include list when you set up your TOC. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com If it makes things work more easily, why isn't it called lubrican?

Cross References:using text that is not that linked to

tics". Yes? You could change the headings to have an autonumber of "Displaying " and in your cross-ref format, use the <$paratext> building block. Elsewhere if you want the full heading referenced, use <$paranum><$paratext>. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technic

Page count in a large book

page numbering, create a temporary book file containing all the document files and number the pages consecutively as described.) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com If it makes things work more easily, why isn't it called lubrican?

REVIEW: PDFEscape-Free, Easy, Web-Based PDF Editing [AppScout]

inyURL... http://tinyurl.com/2wk8ja (Firefox users can add the TinyURL extension to get a menu and context menu item to generate tiny urls.) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com If it makes t

Keeping a frame with the next paragraph

o dedicate a pgf to each image and put only the anchored frames (At Insertion Point) in those pgfs. The tag for the dedicated pgf is defined to Keep With Next Pgf, and the Next Pgf Tag is my legend pgf. This approach also gives me control over Space Above the image, indentation, etc. HTH, --

Index colum-page breaks

. TocBreaker works by "memorizing" the places where you manually insert breaks, so that you can reapply them en masse after the file is regenerated. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix

Keeping Two Tables Together in Frame 6.0

ns, and > the documents are too long for us to adjust the anchored frames > manually. > Since you're already using Framescript, could you write a script that would resize the frames for this scenario? Best, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, O

Keeping Two Tables Together in Frame 6.0

nd set the second table to two orphan rows. You may have to play around with the font size of the blank anchoring pgf, or use the negative Space Above/Space Below trick to get the white space right. But if your script can handle the soft return, I think this will work. best, -- Stuart

different page numbering for the same files

settings saved in the files. Select the first file in the book, and set its numbering to start at one; select the remaining files and set their numbering to continue from previous file. Update and save the book, and you're good to go. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoeni

Index markers not showing in generated index

to another type, and you end up inserting a whole bunch of Subject markers that you thought were Index markers) --make sure there are no carriage returns in your marker text HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers pho

Closing all files in a book without saving?

for a week and learn the keyboard shortcuts. The shortcut for "No" is "n" -- just hold down the key until FM disappears; it takes mere seconds. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "The Alt key is your friend."

Alphabetizing a generated list of Figures or Tables

f course, nothing automated about it, but it would accomplish what you ask. best, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com If it makes things work more easily, why isn't it called lubrican?

Interpreting logged pdf errors or parsing the FM messages

ge numbering > problems, but I digress... I think you're confusing FM with MS Word. Word saves a huge amount of information in the final pilcrow of a document and that info often gets corrupted. Numbering in Word is a cruel joke at best, even without the pilcrow location. HTH, -- S

Interpreting logged pdf errors or parsing the FM messages

Stuart Rogers wrote: > I don't know why you can't change it's formatting ...and is deeply embarrassed. Maybe it was a low-blood-sugar moment. I'll go have lunch now. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416)

List of linked graphic file locations

ive plug-in by Bruce Foster: http://tinyurl.com/2p34x9 "Archive is a shareware plugin for FrameMaker that copies a book to an archive directory and gathers all documents, referenced graphics, and text insets for that book into the archive directory. " An inexpensive tool at $25. -- Stuar

Close all chapters without saving

er of seconds. You already know Step 1: 1. In the Book window, activate File > Close All Files in Book (Esc f C or Alt + Shift + F c). 2. Press and hold the N key until the last of the confirmation dialog boxes disappears. You're done. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Comm

Unwanted pages

these files are part of a book -- settings in the file will be overridden. Also check the pgf tag for the first pgf in the file, Pagination tab, Start -- a setting of Top of Left Page or Top of Right Page (in a book context) can also cause extra blank pages depending on circumstances. HTH, -- Stua

Changing Printers

orne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm It will make Adobe PDF your default printer within FM without affecting your other applications, which can continue to use your default physical printer. You may also find that the driver for your physical printer has an option to report its fonts to the o

sorting lists

> Put them in a table and sort the table. See the Help topic, Sorting columns and rows. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com Lucy: Charlie Brown, life is like a deck chair on a cruise ship

anchored frame alignment with insertion point

ed frame selected. Therefore, if you create one properly distanced anchored frame, you can save time by inserting the next anchored frame *before* importing the next graphic, then shrink-wrapping. The Distance setting will be unaffected. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix G

Strange Frame to PDF problem

characters. This type of path is composed of components separated by backslashes, each up to 255 characters in length. To specify an extended-length path, use the "\\?\" prefix. For example, "\\?\D:\". (The characters < > are used here for visual clarity and cannot be p

Esc m p

. The ImpGraph enhanced Shrinkwrap command lets you specify the margin between the graphic and frame, leaves the anchor position for the parent frame unchanged, and can shrinkwrap multiple graphic objects in a single frame." http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/ImpGraph.htm -- Stuart

table and figure captions

27;s pilcrow symbol visible (a 2-pt pilcrow is not). You can set a font colour for the containing pgf as well, to make the pilcrow stand out even more -- very useful when the pgf is empty. Best regards, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada

adding user variables to the TOC

agraph ahead of the ChapterTitle paragraph, and include both pgfs in your TOC setup (with the first tagged as RunIn in the TOC). Show the condition, generate and save the TOC, then hide the condition. Might work? -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com In matters of politics, I never believe anything until it's officially denied.

adding user variables to the TOC

thereby making the pagination different under the show vs. hide setting. (If so, then using separate pgfs with negative space above/below would get around that.) sr -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-ge

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

on't know how you feel about Dell hardware etc., and I have no experience with their laptops myself, but until July 2 you can still order the Vostro models with WinXP installed. best, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

's right! The first few minutes *are* very relaxing." Welcome to Office 2007! ;-) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com In matters of politics, I never believe anything until it's officially denied.

degree symbol

q with a less-than sign produces the degree symbol. (If you type one after the other, you'll see there is a difference in appearance between the ring and the degree symbols.) HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 32

The Mystery Wrap

olded, oblique, obliqued, etc. There's room for much complication, depending on the fonts. The names must be exactly correct, or FM will report fonts not found. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geo

question about overrides

obviously doesn't apply. Instead, increase the Widow/Orphan value on the Pagination tab, or use the page break tag method. (MS Word's keep together option will still force a pgf to the next page if it doesn't all fit on the current page. You'll get the same effect in FM

Suppress TableCleaner message in Console?

ground. Adding this plug-in might solve the issue, even if the setprint function isn't used. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90%

Dialog box annoyance

eed to do on a PC is download ResourceHacker and make permanent changes to FM's dialog boxes by modifying fmdlg.dll in the fminit folder. http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ (You will, of course, remember to back up fmdlg.dll first, won't you...) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicat

Dialog box annoyance

to 10pt and be able to read your marker text!!). Remember that some dialog boxes contain objects that may appear only in certain contexts, so if you change the size/position of other objects, be sure to allow room for the contextual items to appear. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator P

Dialog box annoyance

cut), then type Alt+spacebar to activate the title bar menu, and type M for Move. (Important! Do not move your mouse!) Experiment with holding down different arrow keys until the dialog box comes back into view. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON

Windows command for moving a window or dialog box

its command from the menu (or by typing the keyboard shortcut), then type Alt+spacebar to activate the title bar menu, and type M for Move. (Important! Do not move your mouse!) Experiment with holding down different arrow keys until the dialog box comes back into view. -- Stuart Rogers Tech

Recovery

. Come to think of it, I guess I have to thank Word's behaviour for causing me to almost never lose more than a couple of minutes of work in any program I use... Have a good weekend, all :-) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416)

Automatically inserting "blank page" text

; different master page or a particular paragraph type? > > I'm using FrameMaker 7.2 on Windows XP. I don't know how to automate that. Myself, I insert a small version of the company logo as an end-of-chapter indicator, and just avoid the whole issue. Have you considered that appro

watermark on Framemaker pages

select the text frame and change Graphics > Object Properties > Angle to -45. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com I'll stop saying Microsoft is arrogant when Windows stops s

Remove Overrides...doesn't

at, not the original. So if you have a slight wrist-stutter when you CTRL-click a text frame, you can end up with a duplicate, perfectly overlaid on your main flow frame, and thus the problems you have described. Learned from sad experience ;-) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix

Questions about look and feel.

ious methodology. Also sounds like it is geared to advertising rather than book-length text, and I very much doubt that what's good for the former applies uniformly to the latter. But I shall reserve judgement until I've actually read the thing! Thanks for the reference, Mike, -- Stuart Ro

MS Word Numbering (was RE: FrameMaker uses)

I've asked for Deirdre's workshop, but can also offer this page of resources, in particular the "Word's numbering explained" FAQ. (Although you may wish you had never asked...) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering.htm best, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix

Booklet function with Framemaker

gt; I use Clickbook from bluesquirrel.com for page imposition -- but my needs are quite restricted, and all my printing is done in-house. I also don't need to use EPS graphics, which Clickbook does not support. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toront

how to get list of variables and values

ot;VariableFormats". What follows is the list you're looking for. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "A man's screech should exceed his rasp, or what's a violin for?" --another Rogers Original

Marketing a product: which language for the documentation

in the EU, your client must conform to a LOT of regulations, which include translating the documentation into local languages. The client may want to engage a consultant to ensure compliance with CE marking. You can find more information by searching "CE marking" or slogging through htt

Barcode font

get about two million hits... HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "A man's screech should exceed his rasp, or what's a violin for?" --another Rogers Original

Barcode font revisited - it's really just zip codes that I'm after

ug-in like that would be nifty if it exists. I think MS Word has a built-in zip bar coding function in the Labels & Envelopes feature -- don't know if that helps in your workflow or not, but could be worth a try. best, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics

anchored frame alignment with insertion point

r. Please either re-post your message with a better description of what you are trying to do, or if you like, send me your image off-list and I will try to help. best regards, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoeni

OT: Attaching a graphic to a format in Word - part II

needs to be in the body of the document, and I can't recreate the > line using the Borders and Shading Option. > Can you elaborate on why not? (There may be a way.) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 3

XP Service Patch 3 prevents referencing Visios in Frame 7.2

manufacturer's Web site for advisories, and proceed with caution. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "unInstall Specialist cannot load the Setup log file. Please reinstall th

publishing problems for Kazakh

ms other than Framemaker, I recommend the Setprint plug-in from Sundorne: http://sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "unInstall Spe

long target names in xref dialog

gt; Does anyone have any other ideas? > Thanks, > You could use a Resource Editor like http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/ to resize your x-ref_main dialog box to accommodate longer names. Make a backup of fmdlg.dll in Program Files > Adobe > Framemaker > fminit before you mess

Internal Error 6004 etc.

FrameMaker. Then restart Frame, open the MIF file, and save it in Document (.fm) format. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Developers explain How the Product Works. Technical writers explain How to Work the Product."

CMYK in Frame

th grayscale here, but I need the best way to explain > to a PC Frame client why they are seeing what they are seeing. Any > help would be appreciate. > > Frame in Classic/Frame 7.2 on Windows XP. > http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=324220 HTH, -- St

Cross-Reference/Hyperlink Question

> > Is there any way to do this using Frame's cross-reference or any other > functionality? > Yes. See the Help topic, Hypertext and View-Only Documents. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 sr

Missing font error messages when Saving as PDF

bly hiding on a reference or master page or in a table definition. My best advice is to get the free SetPrint plug-in from Sundorne so that Frame always uses the Adobe PDF printer instance (while leaving your default hardware printer as-is in other app's). Then always print to PDF, the

Printing with line numbers

oughout the book -- each master page could have the same numbering 1-100 or whatever suits. For production, reimport your regular template to get rid of the line numbers. Just a thought... -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 3

Printing with line numbers

standard document formats need line numbers as part of their > requirements. For example: > > 1. Some legal documents. > > 2. Patent filings (numbered every five lines). > > Z > > That's true, but the original poster specified this was a request from reviewers,

How to add double line ruling to bottom of first row of table

Custom Cell Ruling area. 4. From the Apply Ruling Style list, choose From Table. 5. Apply. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. W

Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

sidehead (for > tables), keep with next/previous, start at top of column/page ... > ...ability to define a Next Pgf for figure captions... -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com &

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