Eps problem

[matthias.dill...@snb.ch]

Hi Mark

FrameMaker cannot display the eps graphic. It only displays an included 
preview. You have to enhance this preview, e.g. increase the dpi setting, 
to get a better display (and a bigger filesize). Look at the settings in 
Illustrator when saving the graphic as eps.
Earlier releases of FrameMaker could display the eps graphs directly, when 
DisplayPostScript was available ...

Regards
Matthias


framers-bounces+matthias.dillier=snb.ch at lists.frameusers.com wrote on 
10.08.2006 09:13:50:

> I've imported an eps for a cover graphic (full US Letter size) that in
> Frame looks horribly pixellated and only displays in black and white.




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Best practice or method of lining up decimal points in numbered paragraphs...

[matthias.dill...@snb.ch]

Hi Andy

framers-bounces+matthias.dillier=snb.ch at lists.frameusers.com wrote on 
31.05.2006 04:30:22:

> This allows all decimal points to line up. Is this an acceptable
> way of getting the decimal points to line up, or is there a better way 
to do
> this?

You can use a decimal tabulator and something like \t.. Depending 
on your exact needs, you also may use a right tabulator or several tabs. 
To align numbers also be sure to turn kerning off for the used paragraph 
or character format. With no kerning, in most fonts all numbers are evenly 
spaced.

Regards,
Matthias



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What do you use for PDF Generation?

[matthias.dill...@snb.ch]

Did you have a look at ghostscript maybe with FreePDF 
(http://www.shbox.de/freepdf.htm)
as frontend?

Regards,
Matthias



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FrameMaker Evangelist / dashed lines in FrameMaker

[matthias.dill...@snb.ch]

Hi RJ and hi all

Nice to here, that there is now a FrameMaker Evangelist at Adobe and that 
he is watching this list. Maybe this can help to stop the continuing 
rumors about FrameMaker being dead.

 So, I once more try an old question:

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Bug in calculation of dashed lines

In FrameMaker 5.5.6 and 6.0 on NT and UNIX I encountered a problem with 
dashed lines. When you draw a polyline with many points on it and use a 
dashed line style, the line turns into a solid line, if there are many 
points one near the other which define the polyline. This is because 
FrameMaker begins a new dash-pattern at every point on the polyline. (You 
have the same problem with the edges of boxes etc.)
I think that this is a bug in the algorithm to draw dashed lines. In 
PostScript, the dashed lines continue regularly regardless of the number 
of points on the polyline. The same behavior in Excel, SAS/GRAPH, 
different graphics packages ... ... .

What do you think of this problem?
Will there be a fix by Adobe or are there any workarounds?

-

I first posted this question to the list (and to some Adobe addresses) 5 
years ago (April 2001) but I still have no solution for the problem and no 
answer from Adobe. The problem is still there in FrameMaker 7.0 but I did 
not test it with 7.1 or 7.2.

The background is, that I wanted to use the plotting program Grace (see: 
http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/) which can output plots in 
mif-format. Sometime it would be very nice to be able to use mif to 
include and edit plots in FrameMaker instead of having to use eps, as I do 
now. But the described bug makes some of my plots (mostly 'business 
graphs') unusable, especially when I have to use black and white 
lineplots.

Kind regards,
Matthias


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Plugin

[matthias.dill...@snb.ch]

Hi Doug

framers-bounces+matthias.dillier=snb.ch at lists.frameusers.com wrote on 
20.03.2006 17:31:14:

> Is there a plugin that will generate a list of inserted-by-reference
> graphics over a large number of FM files?  I know how to use Frame to
> do this on a FM by FM basis, but I have hundreds of FMs for which I
> need a list of locations of imported images, so obviously I'd like to
> automate as much of this as possible.

Maybe you can generate a book with all (or part of them) fm-files and then 
generate the list of references of this book?

Regards,
Matthias


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Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files / SVN

[matthias.dill...@snb.ch]

Hi all

> Content Management and Versioning is a recurring topic on Framers. Does 
> anyone have a summary of systems that are compatible with Frame?
> 
> Also, instead of using binary files, would it be possible to use MIF or, 

> if in a completely structured environment, XML in the CVS to keep track 
> of differences down to the 'element' level?

Did anyone try subversion (with fm files, not only mif or xml) which 
should be able to handle binary files better than CVS?

Regards
Matthias


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