RE: framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 4

2011-02-04 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
On Stuart's rant, I want to add my distaste for the whole pod thing. Not only has it taken me a long time to find a view (or whatever they call it) that doesn't get in my way, there are some awful bugs in the pods. Try deleting multiple variables or multiple conditions. After you delete one, the

framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 4

2011-02-04 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
On Stuart's rant, I want to add my distaste for the whole pod thing. Not only has it taken me a long time to find a view (or whatever they call it) that doesn't get in my way, there are some awful bugs in the pods. Try deleting multiple variables or multiple conditions. After you delete one, the

RE: framers Digest, Vol 60, Issue 13

2010-10-15 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
Jo, I import drawing files from engineering and I don't have the problem you are describing; however, I don't know if my process will solve your problem. They typically deliver the files in DWG format. I open them with Illustrator and save them as EPS files. I then import them into Frame and I

framers Digest, Vol 60, Issue 13

2010-10-15 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
Jo, I import drawing files from engineering and I don't have the problem you are describing; however, I don't know if my process will solve your problem. They typically deliver the files in DWG format. I open them with Illustrator and save them as EPS files. I then import them into Frame and I

Help Tools

2010-10-13 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
Pam, The basic Web Works that shipped with Frame 7.2 may work for you *if* you have all of the conversion templates from ePublisher and you don't modify anything in the template that will break the conversion rules. It's basically a compiler. The idea was you need one license of Pro to build and

RE: Linking to folder on network

2010-09-24 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
- From: Ann Zdunczyk [mailto:azdunc...@triad.rr.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 11:01 AM To: 'Simon BUCH'; framers@lists.frameusers.com Cc: Davis, Jessica D. Subject: RE: Linking to folder on network Another thing I found when working on network drives at Western Electric/ATT/Lucent

Linking to folder on network

2010-09-24 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
- From: Ann Zdunczyk [mailto:azdunc...@triad.rr.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 11:01 AM To: 'Simon BUCH'; framers at lists.frameusers.com Cc: Davis, Jessica D. Subject: RE: Linking to folder on network Another thing I found when working on network drives at Western Electric/AT/Lucent

Books and List of...

2010-09-23 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
You could import all of the graphics into separate paragraphs in this single file, then conditionalize the anchor and paragraph mark for each instance. Thanks, Jess Jessica Davis Technical Writer Federal APD Transportation System Phone: 248-374-9652 Fax: 248-374-9610

Linking to folder on network

2010-09-23 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
Thanks to all for your help. The file://path file:///\\%3cpath worked, however, I had to replace all spaces in the path with %20 to make it work. Thanks, Jess Jessica Davis Technical Writer Federal APD Transportation System Phone: 248-374-9652 Fax: 248-374-9610

Books and List of...

2010-09-22 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
You could import all of the graphics into separate paragraphs in this single file, then conditionalize the anchor and paragraph mark for each instance. Thanks, Jess Jessica Davis Technical Writer Federal APD Transportation System Phone: 248-374-9652 Fax: 248-374-9610 E-mail:jddavis at

Linking to folder on network

2010-09-22 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
Thanks to all for your help. The file:// > worked, however, I had to replace all spaces in the path with %20 to make it work. Thanks, Jess Jessica Davis Technical Writer Federal APD Transportation System Phone: 248-374-9652 Fax: 248-374-9610 E-mail:jddavis at federalapd.com

Linking to folder on network

2010-09-21 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
I want to put a hypertext link in my FrameMaker file, so that a reader can click the path name in the PDF and it opens that folder on the network...similar to inserting a Hypertext link in a Word document. Can this be done? I've tried the 'message URL' command and it didn't work, nor did the

Linking to folder on network

2010-09-20 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
I want to put a hypertext link in my FrameMaker file, so that a reader can click the path name in the PDF and it opens that folder on the network...similar to inserting a Hypertext link in a Word document. Can this be done? I've tried the 'message URL' command and it didn't work, nor did the

newlink - deleting the prefix of a named destination

2010-09-09 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
I'm looking for a way to create a named destination in FrameMaker for my PDF output, without the M8.newlink prefix. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Jess Jessica Davis Technical Writer Federal APD Transportation System Phone: 248-374-9652 Fax: 248-374-9610 E-mail:jddavis at

Bleed tabs and FrameMaker

2010-09-03 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
Does anyone know how to automatically generate bleed tabs in FrameMaker? I was hoping for a tool that that would apply them to my PDFs, instead of applying them to my source, but I've had no luck. If you know of a tool that does that, please let me know. If there is no such tool, my next avenue

Bleed tabs and FrameMaker

2010-09-03 Thread Davis, Jessica D.
Does anyone know how to automatically generate bleed tabs in FrameMaker? I was hoping for a tool that that would apply them to my PDFs, instead of applying them to my source, but I've had no luck. If you know of a tool that does that, please let me know. If there is no such tool, my next avenue