This is good news :)
FM doesn't get anywhere near the promotion it needs in these parts. Maybe, RJ,
you can squeeze in a working holiday to the Southern Hemisphere.
Cheers
Alan
RJ Jacquez said:
> Hi All,
>
> Just wanted to introduce myself to the group and share with you that as of
> Monday, I
On 6 Apr 2006, at 10:02, RJ Jacquez wrote:\
> Thank you and I consider myself very fortunate to be back and to be
> part of a great FrameMaker team, and in general I believe that this is
> a great time to be a FrameMaker user and one of my main goals in my
> new job is to promote the product bo
Nancy,
You wrote:
>I use a barcode font in a Frame doc and then print the file using
>Acrobat Distiller.
>In the Distiller, I set the option to "Embed all fonts". In the
>generated PDF file,
>the barcode font dissappears leaving a blank area. Any ideas on how I
>can fix this?
Custom PostScript f
Hi RJ,
Agreeing with the group here, it's great to have you! I attended the Help
Authoring Seminar in Orlando in '02 when you introduced the first version of
RH4FM. Never got to try it due to a software purchasing freeze right after
I returned from the seminar, (h?) but enjoyed the presentati
Hello RJ,
like my "fellow Framers", I'm glad to "see" you back again. I remember you
giving me some great (and swift) RH4FM support. And like John Posada, I
liked RH4FM (and particularly its user interface) a lot more than WWP. Great
product, too bad it didn't get beyond version 1.x.
Good luck an
Hi all (& especially RJ),
I get the listserve posts by digest, so I have to respond to everything
a day or so later.
I don't know you, RJ, but I'd like to add my voice to the chorus
welcoming you. And to show you just how much I appreciate and value you,
I'm going to start right in with a reques
We spend a lot of time removing English jargon for airline safety.
A big airline in Japan wrote - "we see the Intentionally Left Bank page
but there
is no Intentionally Right Blank page". Bodvar Bjorgvinsson is correct,
never assume
foreigners can understand jargon.
The English sign outside the
Hi Framers,
I have a bulleted list style and have set widows and orphans to 2, but
Frame lets the list break across pages with only 1 item on the next
page. I've played around and set widows and orphans to 0 and also 3,
but it makes no difference.
Keep With Next and Previous are both disabled.
FrameMaker 7.0
We don't use the Body paragraph tag in our documents. We created a
different tag, Regtext, that we use for our body text. My question is,
is it OK to delete the paragraph tag from our templates and documents?
The reason I ask is because I see that Body paragraph tag is on the body
Framers - The correct FAA link needs an underscore -
http://www.faa.gov/library/media_library/
Thanks Tanya ...
--
John Smart and the MAXit Team
Email: jsmart at smartny.com
SMART Communications, Inc.
909 Third Avenue,
New York, NY 10022 USA
Tel: +1(212) 486-1894 -5GMT
VM: +1(646) 495-3146 (2
Hello Lynn,
thank you for your clarification.
Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,
Wim Hooghwinkel wimh at scriptware.nl
DTP and XML Management
Scriptware bv http://www.scriptware.nl
tel : +31 (0)23 548 48 84
fax : +31 (0)23 548 48 85
http://www.scriptware.nl
info at scriptware.nl info at sc
Hi Pearl,
I've faced this problem a few times...
Try punching a "Enter key" or End of Line character at the end of the last
bulleted entry.
Thanks,
David
On 4/6/06, pearlrosenberg at nc.rr.com wrote:
>
> Hi Framers,
>
> I have a bulleted list style and have set widows and orphans to 2, but
>
Hi, Lynne:
Perhaps I was too brief in mentioning structured FM in the context.
Thanks for the pointer!
Regards,
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
At 12:23 PM -0700 4/4/06, Lynne A. Price wrote:
>At 07:52 AM 4/4/2006, Peter Gold wrote:
>>* Move into structured FM, where you can d
Wow a FrameMaker Evangelist with a .Mac account. You really are good!
Kevin C. Rusnak, CDIA+
E-Learning Development Specialist, Technical Services
Hyland Software, Inc.
440.788.5609
440.788.5709 (fax)
kevin.rusnak at onbase.com
www.onbase.com
28500 Clemens Roa
Hi Pearl,
widows/orphans only works WITHIN the same paragraph. You could use "Keep
with previous" but this will keep the complete list together. You could
create 2 dedicated paragraph tags: and and use "Keep
with previous" in one of them, but then again, this is not very elegant
either.
--
Y
Sivia,
There is no harm in deleting the Body paragraph tag from your documents. If
you create a text frame, its first paragraph is automatically tagged with
"Body" but you can easily retag it to what is appropriate. You can also
retag the main flow text frame on your master pages, although ther
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:
-
Bug in calculation of dashed lines
In FrameMaker
All,
Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text frames, etc.,
in the maker.ini file?
Rene
--- Rick Quatro wrote:
> Sivia,
>
> There is no harm in deleting the Body paragraph tag from your documents.
> If
> you create a text frame, its first paragraph is automatically tagged
Hi Rene,
No there is not. If you are creating a lot of text frames (for callouts,
etc.), you could create one, tag it correctly, and then copy it. Or, you
could use a script to change the format automatically.
Rick
> All,
>
> Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text frames,
On Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:56 AM, Rene Stephenson wrote:
| Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text
| frames, etc., in the maker.ini file?
|
| Rene
The answer is "yes and no" - you can not modify the behavior or names if
you create new documents from the generic custom te
...or maybe this is a case where SPS Auto-Text plugin would be helpful?
Rene
--- Rick Quatro wrote:
> Hi Rene,
>
> No there is not. If you are creating a lot of text frames (for callouts,
>
> etc.), you could create one, tag it correctly, and then copy it. Or, you
>
> could use a script to ch
At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote:
> in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker user
I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight face. I've
got 13 years worth of FrameMaker collateral on my Mac and it's a profoundly
unpleasant time to be a F
Nancy,
Did you solve your issue already?
If not, I was thinking that you might try circumventing it...
Try resizing your screen caps before inserting them in FM. As a general
rule, I encourage everyone to do this. FM is not a friendly
graphics-handling program.
We use pngs too, but we actually tak
Bill Briggs wrote:
> At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote:
>> in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker
>> user
>
> I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight
> face. I've got 13 years worth of FrameMaker collateral on my Mac and
> it's a profou
At 12:41 PM -0400 4/6/06, Stuart Rogers wrote:
>Bill Briggs wrote:
>>At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote:
>>>in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker
>>>user
>>
>>I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight
>>face. I've got 13 years worth of Fra
Too bad Jobs isn't as much a Mac fanatic as Mac fanatics are
Art
On 4/6/06, Bill Briggs wrote:
> At 12:41 PM -0400 4/6/06, Stuart Rogers wrote:
> >Bill Briggs wrote:
> >>At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote:
> >>>in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker
> >>>use
At this stage I wouldn't even speculate on what motivates Steve Jobs, or what
he's fanatical about. And that may have changed since his close brush with the
mortality (pancreatic cancer). One detects a change in his outlook.
I don't know that we Mac users are fanatics. I switched from windows a
Today's NPR Talk of the Nation is discussing the Mac and Windows OS. If the
broadcast time has past for your time zone, you can listen to program over
the web (http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5).
Karen L. Zorn
Zorn Technologies, Inc.
Mesa, AZ
-Original Message-
F
> Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text frames, etc.,
> in the maker.ini file?
I don't know of a way to change the default paragraph tag, but you can
change its default properties. If you load the "custom" document in the
FMINIT directory, you can use the Paragraph Designer
At 4:12 PM +0300 4/6/06, Sivia Atar wrote:
>My question is, is it OK to delete the paragraph tag from our templates and
>documents?
Actually, it's fraught with danger. You know that little tag on your mattress
that you can't tear off? Well, the same people who will arrest you if you
remove tha
Hello all,
Since this is off topic of FrameMaker, I was wondering if anyone out
there is very proficient with Illustrator CS. I am trying to create an
action and it is not performing completely as I need it to. If anyone
cares to give me some suggestions, please contact me off list.
Many thanks i
Hi Bill,
I appreciate your comments, but I would rather keep my primary application
(FrameMaker), even if I had to run it on a "foreign" operating system like
Windows XP. The ability to run FrameMaker on the Mac via Windows may be a
compromise, but it has to be better than switching application
Folks:
As I head back into heavy FrameMaker use to attach another project, I've
decided to check out Framescript in order to add macro creation ability, if
nothing else, to my publishing capabilities.
But lo and behold, my attempts to go to www.framescript.com has popped up no
more than the old "
At 5:13 PM -0400 4/6/06, Rick Quatro wrote:
>And I think that the increased popularity of OS X would cause Apple's hardware
>sales to increase as well.
Maybe, maybe not. That's the tough call. It didn't work in the "clone" era,
and I'm not sure it would now. Don't forget that Apple is first and
Hi there,
FrameScript's website address is www.fml.com.
I think that should work for you.
Sincerely,
Veronica K?tt
President
Front Runner Training
A Division of Front Runner Publishing Solutions Inc.
416-515-0155
veronica at front-runner.com
Front Runner
21 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 402
T
True, Apple is a hardware company, but the real money in computers is in
software. Just ask Bill Gates. The question is, how much hardware revenue
would Apple lose by such a move? Do people buy Apple for the hardware or for
the software experience? Hopefully, they would gain many customers that
Don,
Unfortunately the FrameScript site stopped functioning late this morning
due to a server problem. We anticipate that it will be back up and
running tomorrow.
Sorry for the inconvience.
Thanks,
Ben Slone
Finite Matters Ltd.
804-556-1180 main office number
804-556-1183 fax
703-627-3120 mob
On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Stuart Rogers wrote:
>
> Don't know if it will be good news to mac users or not... but it was
> reported in the paper today that "Apple Computer Inc. released new
> software yesterday that lets users of its newest computers run
> Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Windows XP
Nancy,
You wrote:
I use a barcode font in a Frame doc and then print the file using
Acrobat Distiller.
In the Distiller, I set the option to "Embed all fonts". In the
generated PDF file,
the barcode font dissappears leaving a blank area. Any ideas on how I
can fix this?
Custom PostScript font
Hi RJ,
Agreeing with the group here, it's great to have you! I attended the Help
Authoring Seminar in Orlando in '02 when you introduced the first version of
RH4FM. Never got to try it due to a software purchasing freeze right after
I returned from the seminar, (h?) but enjoyed the presentati
Hello RJ,
like my "fellow Framers", I'm glad to "see" you back again. I remember you
giving me some great (and swift) RH4FM support. And like John Posada, I
liked RH4FM (and particularly its user interface) a lot more than WWP. Great
product, too bad it didn't get beyond version 1.x.
Good luck an
At 07:52 AM 4/4/2006, Peter Gold wrote:
* Move into structured FM, where you can define this behavior.
Peter,
Alas, not quite. You can define a default of Run into Paragraph for
anchored frames that result from importing an XML document. However,
defaults for anchored frames created interac
At 01:27 AM 4/5/2006, Wim Hooghwinkel \(Scriptware\) wrote:
Just two quick questions (FM 7.x , Windows).
Wim,
Asking the questions may have been quick, but I'm afraid the answers
aren't as quick as you might think. See below!
1. After exporting to XML the Import of the same document give
Hi all (& especially RJ),
I get the listserve posts by digest, so I have to respond to everything
a day or so later.
I don't know you, RJ, but I'd like to add my voice to the chorus
welcoming you. And to show you just how much I appreciate and value you,
I'm going to start right in with a requ
We spend a lot of time removing English jargon for airline safety.
A big airline in Japan wrote - "we see the Intentionally Left Bank page
but there
is no Intentionally Right Blank page". Bodvar Bjorgvinsson is correct,
never assume
foreigners can understand jargon.
The English sign outside t
Hi Framers,
I have a bulleted list style and have set widows and orphans to 2, but
Frame lets the list break across pages with only 1 item on the next
page. I've played around and set widows and orphans to 0 and also 3,
but it makes no difference.
Keep With Next and Previous are both disabled.
FrameMaker 7.0
We don't use the Body paragraph tag in our documents. We created a
different tag, Regtext, that we use for our body text. My question is,
is it OK to delete the paragraph tag from our templates and documents?
The reason I ask is because I see that Body paragraph tag is on the bod
Framers - The correct FAA link needs an underscore -
http://www.faa.gov/library/media_library/
Thanks Tanya ...
--
John Smart and the MAXit Team
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMART Communications, Inc.
909 Third Avenue,
New York, NY 10022 USA
Tel: +1(212) 486-1894 -5GMT
VM: +1(646) 495-3146 (24/7)
Hello Lynn,
thank you for your clarification.
Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,
Wim Hooghwinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DTP and XML Management
Scriptware bv http://www.scriptware.nl
tel : +31 (0)23 548 48 84
fax : +31 (0)23 548 48 85
http://www.scriptware.nl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Pearl,
I've faced this problem a few times...
Try punching a "Enter key" or End of Line character at the end of the last
bulleted entry.
Thanks,
David
On 4/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Framers,
>
> I have a bulleted list style and have set widows and orphans to
Hi, Lynne:
Perhaps I was too brief in mentioning structured FM in the context.
Thanks for the pointer!
Regards,
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
At 12:23 PM -0700 4/4/06, Lynne A. Price wrote:
At 07:52 AM 4/4/2006, Peter Gold wrote:
* Move into structured FM, where you can
Wow a FrameMaker Evangelist with a .Mac account. You really are good!
Kevin C. Rusnak, CDIA+
E-Learning Development Specialist, Technical Services
Hyland Software, Inc.
440.788.5609
440.788.5709 (fax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.onbase.com
28500 Clemens Road
Westlak
Hi Pearl,
widows/orphans only works WITHIN the same paragraph. You could use "Keep
with previous" but this will keep the complete list together. You could
create 2 dedicated paragraph tags: and and use "Keep
with previous" in one of them, but then again, this is not very elegant
either.
--
Y
Sivia,
There is no harm in deleting the Body paragraph tag from your documents. If
you create a text frame, its first paragraph is automatically tagged with
"Body" but you can easily retag it to what is appropriate. You can also
retag the main flow text frame on your master pages, although the
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:
-
Bug in calculation of dashed lines
In FrameMaker
All,
Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text frames, etc.,
in the maker.ini file?
Rene
--- Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sivia,
>
> There is no harm in deleting the Body paragraph tag from your documents.
> If
> you create a text frame, its first paragraph is au
Hi Rene,
No there is not. If you are creating a lot of text frames (for callouts,
etc.), you could create one, tag it correctly, and then copy it. Or, you
could use a script to change the format automatically.
Rick
All,
Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text frames, et
On Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:56 AM, Rene Stephenson wrote:
| Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text
| frames, etc., in the maker.ini file?
|
| Rene
The answer is "yes and no" - you can not modify the behavior or names if
you create new documents from the generic custom te
...or maybe this is a case where SPS Auto-Text plugin would be helpful?
Rene
--- Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Rene,
>
> No there is not. If you are creating a lot of text frames (for callouts,
>
> etc.), you could create one, tag it correctly, and then copy it. Or, you
>
> could
At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote:
> in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker user
I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight face. I've
got 13 years worth of FrameMaker collateral on my Mac and it's a profoundly
unpleasant time to be a F
Nancy,
Did you solve your issue already?
If not, I was thinking that you might try circumventing it...
Try resizing your screen caps before inserting them in FM. As a general
rule, I encourage everyone to do this. FM is not a friendly
graphics-handling program.
We use pngs too, but we actually tak
Bill Briggs wrote:
At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote:
in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker
user
I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight
face. I've got 13 years worth of FrameMaker collateral on my Mac and
it's a profoundly unpleas
At 12:41 PM -0400 4/6/06, Stuart Rogers wrote:
>Bill Briggs wrote:
>>At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote:
>>>in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker
>>>user
>>
>>I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight
>>face. I've got 13 years worth of Fra
Too bad Jobs isn't as much a Mac fanatic as Mac fanatics are
Art
On 4/6/06, Bill Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 12:41 PM -0400 4/6/06, Stuart Rogers wrote:
> >Bill Briggs wrote:
> >>At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote:
> >>>in general I believe that this is a great time to be a
At this stage I wouldn't even speculate on what motivates Steve Jobs, or what
he's fanatical about. And that may have changed since his close brush with the
mortality (pancreatic cancer). One detects a change in his outlook.
I don't know that we Mac users are fanatics. I switched from windows a
Today's NPR Talk of the Nation is discussing the Mac and Windows OS. If the
broadcast time has past for your time zone, you can listen to program over
the web (http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5).
Karen L. Zorn
Zorn Technologies, Inc.
Mesa, AZ
-Original Message-
F
Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text frames, etc.,
in the maker.ini file?
I don't know of a way to change the default paragraph tag, but you can
change its default properties. If you load the "custom" document in the
FMINIT directory, you can use the Paragraph Designer t
At 4:12 PM +0300 4/6/06, Sivia Atar wrote:
>My question is, is it OK to delete the paragraph tag from our templates and
>documents?
Actually, it's fraught with danger. You know that little tag on your mattress
that you can't tear off? Well, the same people who will arrest you if you
remove tha
Hello all,
Since this is off topic of FrameMaker, I was wondering if anyone out
there is very proficient with Illustrator CS. I am trying to create an
action and it is not performing completely as I need it to. If anyone
cares to give me some suggestions, please contact me off list.
Many thanks
Hi Bill,
I appreciate your comments, but I would rather keep my primary application
(FrameMaker), even if I had to run it on a "foreign" operating system like
Windows XP. The ability to run FrameMaker on the Mac via Windows may be a
compromise, but it has to be better than switching applicatio
Folks:
As I head back into heavy FrameMaker use to attach another project, I've
decided to check out Framescript in order to add macro creation ability, if
nothing else, to my publishing capabilities.
But lo and behold, my attempts to go to www.framescript.com has popped up no
more than the old "
At 5:13 PM -0400 4/6/06, Rick Quatro wrote:
>And I think that the increased popularity of OS X would cause Apple's hardware
>sales to increase as well.
Maybe, maybe not. That's the tough call. It didn't work in the "clone" era,
and I'm not sure it would now. Don't forget that Apple is first and
Hi there,
FrameScript's website address is www.fml.com.
I think that should work for you.
Sincerely,
Veronica Kütt
President
Front Runner Training
A Division of Front Runner Publishing Solutions Inc.
416-515-0155
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Front Runner
21 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 402
Toronto, O
True, Apple is a hardware company, but the real money in computers is in
software. Just ask Bill Gates. The question is, how much hardware revenue
would Apple lose by such a move? Do people buy Apple for the hardware or for
the software experience? Hopefully, they would gain many customers that
Don,
Unfortunately the FrameScript site stopped functioning late this morning
due to a server problem. We anticipate that it will be back up and
running tomorrow.
Sorry for the inconvience.
Thanks,
Ben Slone
Finite Matters Ltd.
804-556-1180 main office number
804-556-1183 fax
703-627-3120 mo
On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Stuart Rogers wrote:
Don't know if it will be good news to mac users or not... but it was
reported in the paper today that "Apple Computer Inc. released new
software yesterday that lets users of its newest computers run
Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Windows XP operati
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