Re: global master page changes

2013-03-26 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Matt, Perhaps the most elegant way to use the variables method is to save the definitions as a MIF fragment and eliminate any chance of mucking anything else in your files. This is true - unless you are using system variables that are different than the default definitions. If you open

Re: global master page changes

2013-03-26 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Winfried, you do not open the MIF snippet before you import Ahh! Thanks. Never tried it this way ... Kind regards, Klaus --- Original Message --- From: Reng, Dr. Winfried Date: 26.03.2013 08:37 Hi, When you use MIF snippets (or MIF fragments), you do not open the MIF snippet

global master page changes

2013-03-26 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Matt, > Perhaps the most elegant way to use the variables method is > to save the definitions as a MIF fragment and eliminate any > chance of mucking anything else in your files. This is true - unless you are using system variables that are different than the default definitions. If you

global master page changes

2013-03-26 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Winfried, > you do not open the MIF snippet before you import Ahh! Thanks. Never tried it this way ... Kind regards, Klaus --- Original Message --- From: Reng, Dr. Winfried Date: 26.03.2013 08:37 > Hi, > > When you use MIF snippets (or MIF fragments), you do not > open the MIF snippet

Re: Zoom Level Settings in FM 11

2013-02-22 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Steve, Sorry, what is? Probably this one? http://www.scriptorium.com/books/unstructured-framemaker-11/ Kind regards, Klaus ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

Zoom Level Settings in FM 11

2013-02-22 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Steve, > Sorry, what is? Probably this one? http://www.scriptorium.com/books/unstructured-framemaker-11/ Kind regards, Klaus

Re: URGENT: Need help in using fonts in FrameMaker

2011-03-18 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hi Keerthi, FM7 text exchange via clipboard with non-CP1252 text is not possible. You can paste your text in Word, apply the target font (Gulim, Arial, etc.) save it as RTF and open/import that RTF file in FM7. For non-Asian text (Russian, Greek etc.), ensure that you have virtual fonts activated

URGENT: Need help in using fonts in FrameMaker

2011-03-18 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hi Keerthi, FM7 text exchange via clipboard with non-CP1252 text is not possible. You can paste your text in Word, apply the target font (Gulim, Arial, etc.) save it as RTF and open/import that RTF file in FM7. For non-Asian text (Russian, Greek etc.), ensure that you have virtual fonts activated

Font oddity

2011-03-05 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Tim, > WinXP > my WINDOWS/Fonts folder does not contain any Helvetica fonts Installed/registered/activated fonts does not have to be located in the windows fonts folder. They can be located anywhere on your drives. Open your registry (start menu > Run > regedit) and inspect the entries in

Re: Font oddity

2011-03-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Tim, WinXP my WINDOWS/Fonts folder does not contain any Helvetica fonts Installed/registered/activated fonts does not have to be located in the windows fonts folder. They can be located anywhere on your drives. Open your registry (start menu Run regedit) and inspect the entries in

Master Page Usage confusion

2011-02-09 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Tim, > it seems that the only way to be sure that master page > usage is correct is to check every single page. You may want to check the FrameScript "Report: Master Page Usage". http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/quality-pack/report-master-page-usage.html

Re: Master Page Usage confusion

2011-02-08 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Tim, it seems that the only way to be sure that master page usage is correct is to check every single page. You may want to check the FrameScript Report: Master Page Usage. http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/quality-pack/report-master-page-usage.html

Re: Replacing special character single quote

2010-12-16 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Verner, This might be caused by a bug in S-Tagger for Trados 8.2 SDL 2007 and was fixed by a hotfix. Before the hotfix, S-Tagger did write single straight quotes in the text unencoded instead of \q. String `Text \qwith straight quotes\q in FM8.' was erroneously written as String `Text

Replacing special character "single quote"

2010-12-16 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Verner, This might be caused by a bug in S-Tagger for Trados 8.2 SDL 2007 and was fixed by a hotfix. Before the hotfix, S-Tagger did write single straight quotes in the text unencoded instead of "\q". was erroneously written as and resulted in FM as Text withstraightquotes'inFM8.'

Re: To remove local formatting from a paragraph

2010-09-29 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Avraham, For a detailed report of the paragraph format overrides see the free FrameScript Report: Paragraph Format Overrides: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/free-scripts/report-paragraph-format-overrides.html Additionally, there are some other scripts regarding

Re: Generate report of inconsistent conditional text settings?

2010-09-29 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Avraham, For a detailed report of the paragraph format overrides see the free FrameScript Report: Paragraph Format Overrides: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/free-scripts/report-paragraph-format-overrides.html Additionally, there are some other scripts regarding

Generate report of inconsistent conditional text settings?

2010-09-29 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Yves, You may want to take a look at the FrameScript "Report: Condition Formats". http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/quality-pack/report-condition-formats.html It reports condition inconsistencies in detail. Kind regards, Klaus M?ller, itl AG --- Original

To remove local formatting from a paragraph

2010-09-29 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Avraham, For a detailed report of the paragraph format overrides see the free FrameScript "Report: Paragraph Format Overrides": http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/free-scripts/report-paragraph-format-overrides.html Additionally, there are some other scripts regarding

Generate report of inconsistent conditional text settings?

2010-09-29 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Avraham, For a detailed report of the paragraph format overrides see the free FrameScript "Report: Paragraph Format Overrides": http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/free-scripts/report-paragraph-format-overrides.html Additionally, there are some other scripts regarding

SAving frame files with numbers at the end

2010-05-23 Thread Klaus Mueller
Gillian, FM on XP/SP3 or Vista does not save documents with OLE objects. Replace them with regular referenced images or turn back to XP/SP2. Kind regards, Klaus --- Original Message --- From: Flato, Gillian Date: 22.05.2010 00:58 > Has anyone had the problem where Frame saves the frame files

Re: SAving frame files with numbers at the end

2010-05-22 Thread Klaus Mueller
Gillian, FM on XP/SP3 or Vista does not save documents with OLE objects. Replace them with regular referenced images or turn back to XP/SP2. Kind regards, Klaus --- Original Message --- From: Flato, Gillian Date: 22.05.2010 00:58 Has anyone had the problem where Frame saves the frame files

Re: How to get Unicode text in markers (FM9)

2010-05-20 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Wim, Instead of translating MIF7, I strongly recommend to translate MIF9 files. Until Trados does not support MIF9, you can workaround this limitation by changing MIFFile 9.00 to MIFFile 8.00 in the first line of the MIF files before translation. As far as I can see, the new FM9 features

How to get Unicode text in markers (FM9)

2010-05-20 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Wim, Instead of translating MIF7, I strongly recommend to translate MIF9 files. Until Trados does not support MIF9, you can workaround this limitation by changing to in the first line of the MIF files before translation. As far as I can see, the new FM9 features won't be altered by

Re: Framescript to remove all images (but leave the AFrames)

2009-04-08 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Yves, Does anyone have a Framescript he/she wishes to share which removes all images from the frames, but which also leaves the AFrames intact? Find attached the script RemoveGraphicInsets.fsl that removes all copied graphics from the current document. Optionally it deletes also

Framescript to remove all images (but leave the AFrames)

2009-04-08 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Yves, > Does anyone have a Framescript he/she wishes to > share which removes all images from the frames, > but which also leaves the AFrames intact? Find attached the script RemoveGraphicInsets.fsl that removes all copied graphics from the current document. Optionally it deletes also

Re: Transition From FrameMaker 7.2 to FrameMaker 9

2009-02-20 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Danny, When your FM7 documents uses virtual fonts (e.g. Arial Greek), FM8 tries to convert the chars to Unicode (mostly successfully). FM 9.0p183 does not consider virtual/mapped fonts. Kind regards, Klaus --- Original Message --- From: Danny G Green Date: 20.02.2009 14:48 Is it

Transition From FrameMaker 7.2 to FrameMaker 9

2009-02-20 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Danny, When your FM7 documents uses virtual fonts (e.g. Arial Greek), FM8 tries to convert the chars to Unicode (mostly successfully). FM 9.0p183 does not consider virtual/mapped fonts. Kind regards, Klaus --- Original Message --- From: Danny G Green Date: 20.02.2009 14:48 > Is it

"Display heading text" in book file

2009-02-15 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Jon, > I have examined my files and notice that the > heading text that is displayed is typically the > first major heading (such as Heading1) that > FM encounters in the file but not always. As far as I know, only the text in the main flow is considered for the book component heading.

Re: Automated List of Effective Pages for Aerospace Documents

2009-02-09 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hi Clint, Just curious: What's an Effective Page? Kind regards, Klaus ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to

Automated List of Effective Pages for Aerospace Documents

2009-02-09 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hi Clint, Just curious: What's an Effective Page? Kind regards, Klaus

Modification Date Variable

2009-02-06 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Joe, You can use FrameScript to update the content of your user variable on specific events. If you have FrameScript, install the script below and manually insert a variable named "DocModified" into your documents. The following "events" were considered: Keyboard text changes (inserting,

Combined Fonts in FM8

2008-12-26 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Morgan, > [...] Customize Layout, > I don't see an option for Combined Fonts Unnecessarily (imo), Adobe restricted the availability of some Asian specific commands to be visible only with an Asian system locale. You can activate the CombinedFonts command by opening your

Re: Combined Fonts in FM8

2008-12-25 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Morgan, [...] Customize Layout, I don't see an option for Combined Fonts Unnecessarily (imo), Adobe restricted the availability of some Asian specific commands to be visible only with an Asian system locale. You can activate the CombinedFonts command by opening your

Re: Tag-compare tool?

2008-12-17 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Nancy, There's a free FrameScript script from itl that compares the properties of two paragraph formats in a document. http://www.itl.eu/framescript_download.html?L=1 See attached screenshots. Kind regards, Klaus Müller, itl AG --- Original Message --- From: Nancy Allison Date:

Tag-compare tool?

2008-12-17 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Nancy, There's a free FrameScript script from itl that compares the properties of two paragraph formats in a document. http://www.itl.eu/framescript_download.html?=1 See attached screenshots. Kind regards, Klaus M?ller, itl AG --- Original Message --- From: Nancy Allison Date:

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Les, David, Rick, You shouldn't encounter any problems working in an Unstructured (Standard) FM document while FrameMaker is set for Structured. This is no problem whatsoever. Actually, I regularly encounter an annoying problem when working with unstructured documents while FrameMaker is

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Framers, Maybe someone of the FM9 beta participants could check this issue with the current version? (FM8 Structured does also write those structured book component information into unstructured MIF documents.) Thanks, Klaus --- Original Message --- From: Rick Quatro Date: 04.12.2008

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Art, I totally agree: When opening structured documents with unstructured FrameMaker, a warning message should appear. The only problem is that Structured FrameMaker does unnecessarily and counterproductively write structure information in unstructured documents when creating MIF files

Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Les, David, Rick, > You shouldn't encounter any problems working in an > Unstructured (Standard) FM document while FrameMaker > is set for Structured. > This is no problem whatsoever. Actually, I regularly encounter an annoying problem when working with unstructured documents while FrameMaker

Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Framers, Maybe someone of the FM9 beta participants could check this issue with the current version? (FM8 Structured does also write those structured book component information into unstructured MIF documents.) Thanks, Klaus --- Original Message --- From: Rick Quatro Date: 04.12.2008

Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Art, I totally agree: When opening structured documents with unstructured FrameMaker, a warning message should appear. The only problem is that Structured FrameMaker does unnecessarily and counterproductively write structure information in unstructured documents when creating MIF files

Re: Cross-Reference/Hyperlink Question

2008-10-09 Thread Klaus Mueller
Jona, Create a /NewLink/ hypertext marker in your Mission Planning section title paragraph (e.g. newlink MissionPlanning). To link to that section title, don't create a cross-reference. Instead, apply an appropriate character format to your mission planning phrase and insert a /GotoLink/

Cross-Reference/Hyperlink Question

2008-10-09 Thread Klaus Mueller
Jona, Create a /NewLink/ hypertext marker in your "Mission Planning" section title paragraph (e.g. "newlink MissionPlanning"). To link to that section title, don't create a cross-reference. Instead, apply an appropriate character format to your "mission planning" phrase and insert a /GotoLink/

question about moving around in tables

2008-07-09 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Deirdre, > Anyone know if we can use arrows to move from row to row in a table? If you have FrameScript installed, there's a free script TableNavigation.fsl that allows you to navigate in tables using the arrow keys. http://www.itl.eu/framescript_download.html?=1#c1973 (registration

Re: question about moving around in tables

2008-07-08 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Deirdre, Anyone know if we can use arrows to move from row to row in a table? If you have FrameScript installed, there's a free script TableNavigation.fsl that allows you to navigate in tables using the arrow keys. http://www.itl.eu/framescript_download.html?L=1#c1973 (registration

Entering unicode characters directly in an FM 8 document

2008-06-02 Thread Klaus Mueller
Geoffrey, The first method described here ("How to enter Unicode characters in Microsoft Windows") http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm does work for me in FM8. You probably need to set the registry key EnableHexNumpad as described. If you don't know your unicode (hex)

Re: Entering unicode characters directly in an FM 8 document

2008-06-01 Thread Klaus Mueller
Geoffrey, The first method described here (How to enter Unicode characters in Microsoft Windows) http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm does work for me in FM8. You probably need to set the registry key EnableHexNumpad as described. If you don't know your unicode (hex) values

Unicode support of FrameMaker 8

2007-12-21 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hi all, I would never recommend using special chars in FM file or format names, but found the following issue with FrameMaker 8.0p266 (that worked in FM7): Clicking on the following hypertext marker results in an error: "message system explorer C:/Program Files/Adob?" (although the folder

Unicode support of FrameMaker 8

2007-12-21 Thread Klaus Mueller
(sorry for double posting ...) Hi all, I would never recommend using special chars in FM file or format names, but found the following issue with FrameMaker 8.0p266 (that worked in FM7): Clicking on the following hypertext marker results in an error: "message system explorer C:/Program

Unicode support of FrameMaker 8

2007-12-20 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hi all, I would never recommend using special chars in FM file or format names, but found the following issue with FrameMaker 8.0p266 (that worked in FM7): Clicking on the following hypertext marker results in an error: message system explorer C:/Program Files/Adobé (although the folder exists,

Unicode support of FrameMaker 8

2007-12-20 Thread Klaus Mueller
(sorry for double posting ...) Hi all, I would never recommend using special chars in FM file or format names, but found the following issue with FrameMaker 8.0p266 (that worked in FM7): Clicking on the following hypertext marker results in an error: message system explorer C:/Program

Re: Arrow navigation in FM tables

2007-03-08 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Stuart, With this modification, you are able to navigate in tables with the arrow keys - but navigating within paragraphs is then no more possible. There's a free FrameScript TableNavigation.fsl available: http://www.itl.eu/108.0.html#c400 that lets you navigate within tables with the

Arrow navigation in FM tables

2007-03-08 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Stuart, With this modification, you are able to navigate in tables with the arrow keys - but navigating within paragraphs is then no more possible. There's a free FrameScript TableNavigation.fsl available: http://www.itl.eu/108.0.html#c400 that lets you navigate within tables with the

Re: Character counts

2006-11-30 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Michael, Pgf.Text.Count option - it gives different value than if I do FileUtilitiesDocument ReportsAsian Charater Count Does your document contain double byte characters? Do you run FrameMaker with an Asian system locale? - You need to ensure that your paragraph loop does only process

Re: An observation: Frame Wizardry

2006-10-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Klaus, These definitions are not taken from the fminit/custom file; I guess the formats are stored internally (fallback catalogs). This happens only if the appropriate catalogs are not defined in the MIF file at all. If you add *empty* catalogs to your MIF snippet, they are kept empty:

An observation: Frame Wizardry

2006-10-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Klaus, These definitions are not taken from the fminit/custom file; I guess the formats are stored internally ("fallback catalogs"). This happens only if the appropriate catalogs are not defined in the MIF file at all. If you add *empty* catalogs to your MIF snippet, they are kept empty:

Re: Display Using Printer Metrics

2006-08-11 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Kevin, I want to add column headings for the four columns, that are aligned correctly with the columns they correspond to. Wouldn't setting an equal alignment of body and heading columns result in a correct alignment? I want these column headings to appear at the top of the table, as

Display Using Printer Metrics

2006-08-11 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Kevin, > I want to add column headings for the four columns, > that are aligned correctly with the columns they > correspond to. Wouldn't setting an equal alignment of body and heading columns result in a correct alignment? > I want these column headings to appear at the top > of the

Re: A long time starting FrameMaker

2006-08-05 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Rick, A co-worker of mine once had the same problem: On her system, there was a font installed from the network, without copying it to the fonts folder. And in the meantime, the font was removed ... Is there someone I can go to check the path of where Frame is looking for fonts. Your

A long time starting FrameMaker

2006-08-05 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Rick, A co-worker of mine once had the same problem: On her system, there was a font installed from the network, without copying it to the fonts folder. And in the meantime, the font was removed ... >> Is there someone I can go to check the path >> of where Frame is looking for fonts.

sorting translated tables

2006-07-26 Thread Klaus Mueller
regards, Klaus 8< - // SwitchMarkers.fsl // Klaus Mueller, Hamburg. March 26, 2002 // [ Temporarily switch XRef-Markers ] // XRef-Markers within a table will be deleted // on table sorting (FM6-Bug). // This script changes tempo

Re: sorting translated tables

2006-07-25 Thread Klaus Mueller
- // SwitchMarkers.fsl // Klaus Mueller, Hamburg. March 26, 2002 // [ Temporarily switch XRef-Markers ] // XRef-Markers within a table will be deleted // on table sorting (FM6-Bug). // This script changes temporarily the marker type

Re: Opening all text insets in all components in a book ... phew!

2006-06-22 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hedley, Richard, If, indeed, there are many hundreds, you may want to use Framescript to create the books. :-) Note that there's a free FrameScript available: BookOfTextInsets.fsl v1.6 Creates a new temporary book with all (nested) text insets of the current document or book. This

Opening all text insets in all components in a book ... phew!

2006-06-22 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hedley, Richard, > > If, indeed, there are many hundreds, you may want > > to use Framescript to create the books. :-) Note that there's a free FrameScript available: BookOfTextInsets.fsl v1.6 Creates a new temporary book with all (nested) text insets of the current document or book.

TOC made with XRef needs line break in middle of line(s)

2006-06-15 Thread Klaus Mueller
Bodvar, > I agree that this can "easily" be done in FrameScript I did implement such a line break fix in the FrameScript DocTOC: http://www.itl.de/html/englisch/consulting/fsl/solutions-2.html It does fix the line breaks of book TOCs as well as of the chapter TOCs (that are inserted by the

Re: TOC made with XRef needs line break in middle of line(s)

2006-06-14 Thread Klaus Mueller
Bodvar, I agree that this can easily be done in FrameScript I did implement such a line break fix in the FrameScript DocTOC: http://www.itl.de/html/englisch/consulting/fsl/solutions-2.html It does fix the line breaks of book TOCs as well as of the chapter TOCs (that are inserted by the

Re: Two Frame Issues

2006-01-26 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Doug, Format menu option in FrameMaker, the Font, Size, and Style options disable and/or remove these options There's a free FrameScript RemoveFontMenu.fsl at http://www.itl.de/html/englisch/consulting/fsl/itl-pool.html#misc It removes the Font menu from the Format menu and all context

Two Frame Issues

2006-01-26 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Doug, > Format menu option in FrameMaker, the Font, Size, and Style options > disable and/or remove these options There's a free FrameScript RemoveFontMenu.fsl at http://www.itl.de/html/englisch/consulting/fsl/itl-pool.html#misc It removes the "Font" menu from the Format menu and all