Re: 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. sigh -- 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? ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Interpreting logged pdf errors or parsing the FM messages
Rob Shell wrote: Dear Framers: thanks for the direct replies about my crashlogs: very helpful. First, my platform: I am using Framemaker 7.2p158 on Windows XP Second edition with all its updates. I have a virtually clean machine with A to O drives. I mention this as I print export to different drives for space reasons. I am printing .ps files to another, spacious drive. The current book file has 77 heavily indexed, heavily illustrated document files. Many of my crashlogs provide the page number where it stopped distilling. Turns out this was the last page of the document file. When I inspected the last page it looked good, until I noticed that after the last word there was that symbol which looked like an 8, but aint. That symbol was on its own line and when I pulled up paragraph designer, the paragraph label was body and the font was Script24 ( I forget the exact spelling). I am unable to change that font using the default font in character designer. In some other files the same character at the same point in the file was Times Roman. Also quite unable to change the font. What is this character and why is it visiting my files? The character is the end-of-flow character, and it appears in any and every file that has a text flow. It acts like the pilcrow at the end of all your other paragraphs. I don't know why you can't change it's formatting in the designer, but you could try putting your cursor just in front of it and then backspacing once, so that it becomes the final character of your final paragraph (which is where it should be in all documents). Then see if your final paragraph is properly tagged and behaves as expected. It sounds as though you may just have a corrupt file. Try saving as MIF and then re-opening; that often solves mysterious problems. MIF files are enormous and you have a large file to begin with -- make sure you save it on a disk with lots of space. I have tried successfully (I thought) to change the system font to one of the two fonts I use (Adobe Garamond and Myriad Roman) using the maker.ini file. Not respected. You'd have to provide more details on what exactly you did, before anyone on the list could guide you on that one. IIRC, there's more than one .ini file for FM 7.2. Thus I at least have identified the fault area (last page of the file), but now am stuck for a solution. I read somewhere that the last page is the page where all the numbering information is. I can report no page 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, -- 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? ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Interpreting logged pdf errors or parsing the FM messages
Rob Shell wrote: > Dear Framers: > thanks for the direct replies about my crashlogs: very helpful. > > First, my platform: I am using Framemaker 7.2p158 on Windows XP Second > edition with all its updates. > > I have a virtually clean machine with A to O drives. I mention this as I > print export to different drives for space reasons. > > I am printing .ps files to another, spacious drive. The current book file > has 77 heavily indexed, heavily illustrated document files. > > Many of my crashlogs provide the page number where it stopped distilling. > Turns out this was the last page of the document file. When I inspected the > last page it looked good, until I noticed that after the last word there was > that symbol which looked like an 8, but aint. > > That symbol was on its own line and when I pulled up paragraph designer, the > paragraph label was "body" and the font was Script24 ( I forget the exact > spelling). > > I am unable to change that font using the default font in character > designer. In some other files the same character at the same point in the > file was Times Roman. Also quite unable to change the font. What is this > character and why is it visiting my files? The character is the end-of-flow character, and it appears in any and every file that has a text flow. It acts like the pilcrow at the end of all your other paragraphs. I don't know why you can't change it's formatting in the designer, but you could try putting your cursor just in front of it and then backspacing once, so that it becomes the final character of your final paragraph (which is where it should be in all documents). Then see if your final paragraph is properly tagged and behaves as expected. It sounds as though you may just have a corrupt file. Try saving as MIF and then re-opening; that often solves mysterious problems. MIF files are enormous and you have a large file to begin with -- make sure you save it on a disk with lots of space. > > I have tried successfully (I thought) to change the system font to one of > the two fonts I use (Adobe Garamond and Myriad Roman) using the maker.ini > file. Not respected. You'd have to provide more details on what exactly you did, before anyone on the list could guide you on that one. IIRC, there's more than one .ini file for FM 7.2. > > Thus I at least have identified the fault area (last page of the file), but > now am stuck for a solution. I read somewhere that the last page is the page > where all the numbering information is. I can report no page 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, -- 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
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) 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
Dear Framers: thanks for the direct replies about my crashlogs: very helpful. First, my platform: I am using Framemaker 7.2p158 on Windows XP Second edition with all its updates. I have a virtually clean machine with A to O drives. I mention this as I print export to different drives for space reasons. I am printing .ps files to another, spacious drive. The current book file has 77 heavily indexed, heavily illustrated document files. Many of my crashlogs provide the page number where it stopped distilling. Turns out this was the last page of the document file. When I inspected the last page it looked good, until I noticed that after the last word there was that symbol which looked like an 8, but aint. That symbol was on its own line and when I pulled up paragraph designer, the paragraph label was "body" and the font was Script24 ( I forget the exact spelling). I am unable to change that font using the default font in character designer. In some other files the same character at the same point in the file was Times Roman. Also quite unable to change the font. What is this character and why is it visiting my files? I have tried successfully (I thought) to change the system font to one of the two fonts I use (Adobe Garamond and Myriad Roman) using the maker.ini file. Not respected. Thus I at least have identified the fault area (last page of the file), but now am stuck for a solution. I read somewhere that the last page is the page where all the numbering information is. I can report no page numbering problems, but I digress... I confess--miserably--that I have spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME trying to figure out where I am going awry. Yes I love FrameMaker, but I sure appreciate comments from the outside universe. yours gratefully, Rob Major Lurker Prof. Robert C.-H. Shell Commissioner of Truth and Justice for Mauritius Extraordinary Professor of Historical Demography University of the Western Cape Courier address: Room 3,23 Statistics department New Science Building University of Western Cape Modderdam Road Bellville 7535 Western Cape Republic of South Africa Airmail address: Prof. Robert C.-H. Shell Room 3,23 Statistics department New Science Building Private Bag X17 Bellville Western Cape 7535 Republic of South Africa E-mail addresses: rshell at uwc.ac.za rshell at iafrica.com Fax: 021-959-2909
