RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-27 Thread Davis, David
2014 19:34:35 + From: Steve Rickaby srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) syed.hos...@aeris.net,framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FrameMaker freaks me out Message-ID: p0624080ecf071f377a28

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:11 + 23/1/14, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: Fortunately I never experienced something like this. What I would do immediately before closing files or FrameMaker: Copy the whole folder to a temp folder. If FrameMaker does not work correctly, it could also damage the files when closing. Good

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Steve, Fortunately I never experienced something like this. What I would do immediately before closing files or FrameMaker: Copy the whole folder to a temp folder. If FrameMaker does not work correctly, it could also damage the files when closing. Best regards Winfried -Original

Re: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:10 -0500 23/1/14, John Sgammato wrote: I've seen it once or twice in the past 20 years - closing and restarting FM worked. Then our statistics match, John - for me, once in 21 years ;-) I attribute it to sunspots. Or in my case, possible cat fur. -- Steve

Re: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread David Spreadbury
Steve, Occasionally my FrameMaker display will go a little berserk. Nothing as serious, so far, as you relate, but similar. Also, there are times when I will delete a graphic, but it remains on the screen, and I know I deleted it. It may be due to a long standing bug in Frame related to

Re: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:16 -0800 23/1/14, David Spreadbury wrote: Occasionally my FrameMaker display will go a little berserk. Nothing as serious, so far, as you relate, but similar. Also, there are times when I will delete a graphic, but it remains on the screen, and I know I deleted it. It may be due to a

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Steve Rickaby wrote: At some point while editing yesterday, and I'm not sure what I was doing, *every chapter* in the book I'm working on started displaying all its text as if someone had picked it up and randomly scattered it across the page - complete loss of vertical leading, and

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:42 -0800 23/1/14, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: Since then, I have relied on two things: DropBox is my friend ;-) -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Since then, I have relied on two things: DropBox is my friend ;-) Yes, indeed! I do daily backups stored on multiple disks - both here and at home - for safety. I use DropBox, but not for these backup files ... yet ... Z ___ You are currently

Re: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread John Sgammato
I've seen it once or twice in the past 20 years - closing and restarting FM worked. I attribute it to sunspots. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Steve Rickaby srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk wrote: At some point while editing yesterday, and I'm not sure what I was doing, *every chapter* in

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Harro de Jong
Steve Rickaby wrote: At some point while editing yesterday, and I'm not sure what I was doing, *every chapter* in the book I'm working on started displaying all its text as if someone had picked it up and randomly scattered it across the page - complete loss of vertical leading, and