ANN: FrameMaker Seminars, SF Bay Area (June)

2006-04-20 Thread Shlomo Perets
San Carlos (SF Bay Area), California -- Structured FrameMaker: Authoring, June 14 -- Structured FrameMaker: Developing EDDs, June 15-16 -- Technical Indexing with FrameMaker, June 17 -- FrameMaker Template Design, June 19-20 -- Single Sourcing with FrameMaker, June 21 -- FrameMaker-to-Acrobat Adva

(Newbie) Structured FM Question: Notes, Tips, etc.

2006-04-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:00 -0700 19/4/06, Lin Surasky wrote: >Okay... So here's my structured question, in case anyone's still >reading. Lin - welcome to the wonderful world of structured authoring ;-) >What's the best way to implement this and still get the same end result? >Should I not be using tables? The cl

Custom PDF page sizes in XP

2006-04-20 Thread Shlomo Perets
techwordsmith at gmail.com writes: >This is OT because am asking about creating PDFs using Acrobat 7 Pro from MS >Word 2002 in Windows XP, but this is the best place I can think to ask after >getting no response from the U2U forums. > >I ahve an 8x6 page size in Word and it's a pain to create an 8

(Newbie) Structured FM Question: Notes, Tips, etc.

2006-04-20 Thread Etzel, Gary
> What's the best way to implement this and still get the same end result? > Should I not be using tables? The closest I can get is inserting a table > with the same paragraph format assigned to both table cells, which I > don't want. How do you specify one paragraph format for one column and a > d

(Newbie) Structured FM Question: Notes, Tips, etc.

2006-04-20 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 05:00 PM 4/19/2006, Lin Surasky wrote: >We have a fabulous unstructured template that has 4 different table >formats our writers use to insert alerts (Notes, Tips, Important facts, >and Warnings). All of the table formats are single-row, two-column >layouts, but each table format (named zNote, z

Equations from FM 7.0 getting warped. Fixed in 7.2?

2006-04-20 Thread Jon Harvey
Hi All, I have a document that includes a large number of equations. When I produce a pdf from FM 6.0 (windows) it turns out fine. When I produce the pdf in FM 7.0, they get all messed up (they appear warped, smashed, squished, whatever you want to call it). Having just upgraded to FM 7.2, I not

Some PDF Links not working

2006-04-20 Thread Shlomo Perets
Fei Min, You wrote: >I'm using FrameMaker 7.2p158, Distiller 6.0.0 5/15/2003, and Windows >XP. > >We recently noticed that a lot of the cross-references in FrameMaker >didn't translate into working links in the PDF. ... With FM6.x and 7.x , with/without structure, having "Create Named Destinati

Equations from FM 7.0 getting warped. Fixed in 7.2?

2006-04-20 Thread Shlomo Perets
John, You wrote: >I have a document that includes a large number of equations. When I >produce a pdf from FM 6.0 (windows) it turns out fine. When I produce >the pdf in FM 7.0, they get all messed up (they appear warped, smashed, >squished, whatever you want to call it). Having just upgraded to F

Printing Thumb Tabs

2006-04-20 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 4/19/06, donandjudy1 wrote: > Hi, folks: > > With the help of several stalwart frameusers, I successfully created thumb > tabs along the edge of a version of my fixit book. > However, my inkjet printer won't print close enough to the edge for the tabs > to "bleed." It will create the tabs with

Text Inset Issue

2006-04-20 Thread Joan Robins
Thanks for all your suggestions--I apologize for being so late in my response--had a family emergency and have been out of town and out of touch with my work for 10 days. I will examine my file in the light of your suggestions, Peter, and let you know the results. Thanks so much for the detailed h

Requesting help with hypertext commands and character tags

2006-04-20 Thread Stamm, David-P45904
2006-04-20-04T19:10Z We have numerous instances of damage to specified named destinations and some of the content after those destinations in our FrameMaker files. Sometimes, FrameMaker does the following: - removes the "named destination" character tag from one paragraph and applies it to part

Requesting help with hypertext commands and character tags

2006-04-20 Thread Combs, Richard
David Stamm wrote: > We have numerous instances of damage to specified named > destinations and some of the content after those destinations > in our FrameMaker files. > Sometimes, FrameMaker does the following: > - removes the "named destination" character tag from one > paragraph and app

Re: (Newbie) Structured FM Question: Notes, Tips, etc.

2006-04-20 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:00 -0700 19/4/06, Lin Surasky wrote: >Okay... So here's my structured question, in case anyone's still >reading. Lin - welcome to the wonderful world of structured authoring ;-) >What's the best way to implement this and still get the same end result? >Should I not be using tables? The cl

re: Custom PDF page sizes in XP

2006-04-20 Thread Shlomo Perets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is OT because am asking about creating PDFs using Acrobat 7 Pro from MS Word 2002 in Windows XP, but this is the best place I can think to ask after getting no response from the U2U forums. I ahve an 8x6 page size in Word and it's a pain to create an 8x6 PDF from

RE: (Newbie) Structured FM Question: Notes, Tips, etc.

2006-04-20 Thread Etzel, Gary
> What's the best way to implement this and still get the same end result? > Should I not be using tables? The closest I can get is inserting a table > with the same paragraph format assigned to both table cells, which I > don't want. How do you specify one paragraph format for one column and a > d

Some PDF Links Not Working

2006-04-20 Thread FeiMin_Lorente
I'm using FrameMaker 7.2p158, Distiller 6.0.0 5/15/2003, and Windows XP. We recently noticed that a lot of the cross-references in FrameMaker didn't translate into working links in the PDF. I use Save As... to turn it into a PDF. When you put the cursor over the link, it changes to a pointing

Re: (Newbie) Structured FM Question: Notes, Tips, etc.

2006-04-20 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 05:00 PM 4/19/2006, Lin Surasky wrote: We have a fabulous unstructured template that has 4 different table formats our writers use to insert alerts (Notes, Tips, Important facts, and Warnings). All of the table formats are single-row, two-column layouts, but each table format (named zNote, zTi

Equations from FM 7.0 getting warped. Fixed in 7.2?

2006-04-20 Thread Jon Harvey
Hi All, I have a document that includes a large number of equations. When I produce a pdf from FM 6.0 (windows) it turns out fine. When I produce the pdf in FM 7.0, they get all messed up (they appear warped, smashed, squished, whatever you want to call it). Having just upgraded to FM 7.2, I no

Re: Some PDF Links not working

2006-04-20 Thread Shlomo Perets
Fei Min, You wrote: I'm using FrameMaker 7.2p158, Distiller 6.0.0 5/15/2003, and Windows XP. We recently noticed that a lot of the cross-references in FrameMaker didn't translate into working links in the PDF. ... With FM6.x and 7.x , with/without structure, having "Create Named Destination

Re: Equations from FM 7.0 getting warped. Fixed in 7.2?

2006-04-20 Thread Shlomo Perets
John, You wrote: I have a document that includes a large number of equations. When I produce a pdf from FM 6.0 (windows) it turns out fine. When I produce the pdf in FM 7.0, they get all messed up (they appear warped, smashed, squished, whatever you want to call it). Having just upgraded to FM

Re: Printing Thumb Tabs

2006-04-20 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 4/19/06, donandjudy1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, folks: > > With the help of several stalwart frameusers, I successfully created thumb > tabs along the edge of a version of my fixit book. > However, my inkjet printer won't print close enough to the edge for the tabs > to "bleed." It will cr

RE: Text Inset Issue

2006-04-20 Thread Joan Robins
Thanks for all your suggestions--I apologize for being so late in my response--had a family emergency and have been out of town and out of touch with my work for 10 days. I will examine my file in the light of your suggestions, Peter, and let you know the results. Thanks so much for the detailed h

Requesting help with hypertext commands and character tags

2006-04-20 Thread Stamm, David-P45904
2006-04-20-04T19:10Z We have numerous instances of damage to specified named destinations and some of the content after those destinations in our FrameMaker files. Sometimes, FrameMaker does the following: - removes the "named destination" character tag from one paragraph and applies it to part

RE: Requesting help with hypertext commands and character tags

2006-04-20 Thread Combs, Richard
David Stamm wrote: > We have numerous instances of damage to specified named > destinations and some of the content after those destinations > in our FrameMaker files. > Sometimes, FrameMaker does the following: > - removes the "named destination" character tag from one > paragraph and app