Table jumps to next page

2011-08-30 Thread Tim J. Slager
Frame 10 Windows 7 I have a multi-page table that skips to the next page to start, leaving most of the previous page blank. The table is preceded by a heading. Both the heading and the table start on the next page. -Table is set to Start: Anywhere -Heading is set to Start:

Table jumps to next page

2011-08-29 Thread Tim J. Slager
Frame 10 Windows 7 I have a multi-page table that skips to the next page to start, leaving most of the previous page blank. The table is preceded by a heading. Both the heading and the table start on the next page. -Table is set to Start: Anywhere -Heading is set to Start:

Changing the color of a horizontal rule under/over a paragraph

2011-08-24 Thread Tim J. Slager
I'm using FM 10, Unstructured. I can't find in the help where to change the color of the rule under a paragraph, and I don't have my copy of Unstructured FrameMaker 8, which I always turn to first when I have questions like this. How do I change the color of a rule that I apply to a paragraph

RE: Changing the color of a horizontal rule under/over a paragraph

2011-08-24 Thread Tim J. Slager
Figured it out; it was on the Reference pages! From: Tim J. Slager Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 12:55 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Changing the color of a horizontal rule under/over a paragraph I'm using FM 10, Unstructured. I can't find in the help where to change the color

Changing the color of a horizontal rule under/over a paragraph

2011-08-23 Thread Tim J. Slager
I'm using FM 10, Unstructured. I can't find in the help where to change the color of the rule under a paragraph, and I don't have my copy of Unstructured FrameMaker 8, which I always turn to first when I have questions like this. How do I change the color of a rule that I apply to a paragraph

Changing the color of a horizontal rule under/over a paragraph

2011-08-23 Thread Tim J. Slager
Figured it out; it was on the Reference pages! From: Tim J. Slager Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 12:55 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Changing the color of a horizontal rule under/over a paragraph I'm using FM 10, Unstructured. I can't find in the help where to change

Importing paragraph formats

2011-08-21 Thread Tim J. Slager
Is there a way to import only specific formats or a single format from another document instead of the whole set of paragraph formats? tims Tim Slager Tech Pubs T 616.494.1373 ACI Worldwidehttp://www.aciworldwide.com/, 8436 Homestead Drive, Ste. 100, Zeeland, MI 49464, USA This email

Importing paragraph formats

2011-08-19 Thread Tim J. Slager
Is there a way to import only specific formats or a single format from another document instead of the whole set of paragraph formats? tims Tim Slager Tech Pubs T 616.494.1373 ACI Worldwide, 8436 Homestead Drive, Ste. 100, Zeeland, MI 49464, USA This email

RE: Conditional text invisible

2011-06-22 Thread Tim J. Slager
: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:02 AM To: Tim J. Slager; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Conditional text invisible What color is defined as the condition indication for the condition that is disappearing? If its color is set to white (or any

Conditional text invisible

2011-06-21 Thread Tim J. Slager
FM 10 When I apply conditional text and select Show Condition Indicators the conditional text disappears. It's there, and I can highlight it, copy, cut, etc. But it looks as if it is white on white. If I apply an additional condition tag then I see the text with the combined colors. But if I

Conditional text invisible

2011-06-21 Thread Tim J. Slager
: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:02 AM To: Tim J. Slager; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Conditional text invisible What color is defined as the condition indication for the condition that is disappearing? If its color is set to white (or any

Conditional text invisible

2011-06-20 Thread Tim J. Slager
FM 10 When I apply conditional text and select "Show Condition Indicators" the conditional text disappears. It's there, and I can highlight it, copy, cut, etc. But it looks as if it is white on white. If I apply an additional condition tag then I see the text with the combined colors. But if I

RE: FM 10 and Win 7 -- any gotchas/problems?

2011-05-11 Thread Tim J. Slager
I've got FM 10 and Win 7 (32) on a Dell laptop. Works fine. tims -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of M Clark Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:28 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: FM 10 and Win 7

FM 10 and Win 7 -- any "gotchas"/problems?

2011-05-11 Thread Tim J. Slager
I've got FM 10 and Win 7 (32) on a Dell laptop. Works fine. tims -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of M Clark Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:28 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: FM 10 and

RE: So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

2011-03-03 Thread Tim J. Slager
I had lock-up problems with 7.2 on Win 7. I could take care of the lock-ups by running it in administrator mode, but then updating books and generating PDFs was extremely slow, so I would switch back and forth between modes. I'm enjoying 10 now. I think it's too bad Adobe doesn't allow an

So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

2011-03-03 Thread Tim J. Slager
I had lock-up problems with 7.2 on Win 7. I could take care of the lock-ups by running it in administrator mode, but then updating books and generating PDFs was extremely slow, so I would switch back and forth between modes. I'm enjoying 10 now. I think it's too bad Adobe doesn't allow an

Conditional table rows

2011-01-28 Thread Tim J. Slager
I'm experimenting with conditional text in Unstructured FM 10. I started to write an email to this list to ask if it was normal that FM 10 could not find conditional table rows, since I couldn't seem to find conditional table rows, and I couldn't find this in the help files. But I did a Google

Conditional table rows

2011-01-28 Thread Tim J. Slager
I'm experimenting with conditional text in Unstructured FM 10. I started to write an email to this list to ask if it was normal that FM 10 could not find conditional table rows, since I couldn't seem to find conditional table rows, and I couldn't find this in the help files. But I did a Google

RE: FM10 released

2011-01-12 Thread Tim J. Slager
Oh great! Since it was right around the corner, I was waiting for FM 10 before upgrading from 7.2. Now I get to pay full price. Hope I can still buy ver. 9. tims -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of

FM10 released

2011-01-11 Thread Tim J. Slager
Oh great! Since it was right around the corner, I was waiting for FM 10 before upgrading from 7.2. Now I get to pay full price. Hope I can still buy ver. 9. tims -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-29 Thread Tim J. Slager
No I haven't asked Adobe, who there could possibly tell me? Darryl, maybe? tims :) -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan T Litchfield Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:41 PM To: Yves Barbion Cc:

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-28 Thread Tim J. Slager
> "No I haven't asked Adobe, who there could possibly tell me?" Darryl, maybe? tims :) -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan T Litchfield Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:41 PM To: Yves Barbion

RE: FrameMaker and Version Control Software

2010-08-03 Thread Tim J. Slager
Alison, We recently switched to Subversion from Rational ClearCase for some of the same reasons. I use Tortoise SVN (http://tortoisesvn.net/), which integrates with Windows Explorer. And yes, you can lock files, which is a good idea with binary files since you can't merge changes with those

FrameMaker and Version Control Software

2010-08-03 Thread Tim J. Slager
Alison, We recently switched to Subversion from Rational ClearCase for some of the same reasons. I use Tortoise SVN (http://tortoisesvn.net/), which integrates with Windows Explorer. And yes, you can lock files, which is a good idea with binary files since you can't merge changes with those

RE: Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-07-06 Thread Tim J. Slager
The newer MSO Picture Manager also saves files with no quality loss. It is also handy for batch exporting to other formats or sizes. tims -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Richard Melanson Sent:

Extracting embedded graphics from Word

2010-07-01 Thread Tim J. Slager
The newer MSO Picture Manager also saves files with no quality loss. It is also handy for batch exporting to other formats or sizes. tims -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Richard Melanson Sent:

RE: ARE: Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

2010-06-08 Thread Tim J. Slager
the user having to fix the program they just spent a few hundred dollars on. Scott On 6/3/10 12:35 PM, Tim J. Slager wrote: Frame is clunky; Word is quirky. I have to agree numbered lists are Word's Achilles heal, although I can (usually) get them to work. I worked for 10 years at a company

ARE: Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

2010-06-08 Thread Tim J. Slager
without the user having to fix the program they just spent a few hundred dollars on. Scott On 6/3/10 12:35 PM, Tim J. Slager wrote: > Frame is clunky; Word is quirky. > > I have to agree numbered lists are Word's Achilles heal, although I can > (usually) get them to work. > > I w

ARE: Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

2010-06-03 Thread Tim J. Slager
Frame is clunky; Word is quirky. I have to agree numbered lists are Word's Achilles heal, although I can (usually) get them to work. I worked for 10 years at a company where we used Word to create professional documentation with page counts reaching into the thousands with very consistent

ARE: Framemaker 9 vs Microsoft Word

2010-06-03 Thread Tim J. Slager
Frame is clunky; Word is quirky. I have to agree numbered lists are Word's Achilles heal, although I can (usually) get them to work. I worked for 10 years at a company where we used Word to create professional documentation with page counts reaching into the thousands with very consistent

folder structure

2010-05-18 Thread Tim J. Slager
I inherited a book with chapters and files in a complex directory structure. We are changing from one version-control software to another, so now would be a good time to change the folder structure. The complex structure makes it difficult to check out all the files in a book at once. It

folder structure

2010-05-18 Thread Tim J. Slager
I inherited a book with chapters and files in a complex directory structure. We are changing from one version-control software to another, so now would be a good time to change the folder structure. The complex structure makes it difficult to check out all the files in a book at once. It

RE: Running Headers

2010-04-28 Thread Tim J. Slager
. In the mean time I can try some of the suggestions offered from this list. Thanks, everyone. tims -Original Message- From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinask...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:17 AM To: Tim J. Slager Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Running Headers

Running Headers

2010-04-28 Thread Tim J. Slager
. In the mean time I can try some of the suggestions offered from this list. Thanks, everyone. tims -Original Message- From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinask...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:17 AM To: Tim J. Slager Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Running Headers

Running Headers

2010-04-27 Thread Tim J. Slager
FM 7.2 --- I have running headers that reference Chapter Title on left pages and Heading 1 on right pages. Some chapters have multiple files, so they don't include a Chapter Title and sometimes not even a Heading 1. I expected that within a book the variable would pick up the referenced

Running Headers

2010-04-27 Thread Tim J. Slager
FM 7.2 --- I have running headers that reference Chapter Title on left pages and Heading 1 on right pages. Some chapters have multiple files, so they don't include a Chapter Title and sometimes not even a Heading 1. I expected that within a book the variable would pick up the referenced

Pagination problem

2010-04-14 Thread Tim J. Slager
FM 7.2, Windows XP I have a preface with a number of FM documents in it. The first document should have two pages but insists on having three. When I delete the third page, save the file, and then open it again, the third page is back. This messes up my page numbering for the rest of the

RE: Pagination problem

2010-04-14 Thread Tim J. Slager
PS: In some cases, the third page shows up only after I update the book. I'm new to FM, so please assume user ignorance... From: Tim J. Slager Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:20 AM To: 'framers@lists.frameusers.com' Subject: Pagination problem FM 7.2, Windows XP I have a preface

RE: Pagination problem

2010-04-14 Thread Tim J. Slager
@lists.frameusers.com; Tim J. Slager Subject: Re: Pagination problem I assume that the pagination is set to double-sided (ie, left/right). If the preface has several individual FM documents in it, my guess is that each document is set to start on the right page, and the text of the troublesome

Pagination problem

2010-04-14 Thread Tim J. Slager
FM 7.2, Windows XP I have a preface with a number of FM documents in it. The first document should have two pages but insists on having three. When I delete the third page, save the file, and then open it again, the third page is back. This messes up my page numbering for the rest of the

Pagination problem

2010-04-14 Thread Tim J. Slager
PS: In some cases, the third page shows up only after I update the book. I'm new to FM, so please assume user ignorance... From: Tim J. Slager Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:20 AM To: 'framers at lists.frameusers.com' Subject: Pagination problem FM 7.2, Windows XP I have a preface

Pagination problem

2010-04-14 Thread Tim J. Slager
at lists.frameusers.com; Tim J. Slager Subject: Re: Pagination problem I assume that the pagination is set to double-sided (ie, left/right). If the preface has several individual FM documents in it, my guess is that each document is set to start on the right page, and the text of the troublesome