Variable length rule below paragraph

2006-04-28 Thread Alan Litchfield
Thanks guys, I thought it would not be possible. I really dislike the imposition of using the table solution to create something like this, partly because it would not be that much of a problem to add a parameter to the Reference Frame that, say, made it a rubber length based on the width

Variable length rule below paragraph

2006-04-28 Thread Alan Litchfield
On Apr 28, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Scott Prentice wrote: > This may be too obvious, and not customizable, but the use of a > Numeric Underline does basically what you're asking for (as long as > the line doesn't wrap). Might have been an option if one were able to adjust the distance of the unde

Visio (2003) drawings into FrameMaker (7.2, unstructured)?

2006-04-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker doesn't "RIP" anything ... In fact, PDF is converted to EPS when imported into FrameMaker. Other "image" formats or for that matter, other graphic formats are NOT turned into EPS. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameuse

Seeing double (April Hmmm...)

2006-04-28 Thread Shlomo Perets
See current Hmmm... at http://www.microtype.com/homeHmmm.html Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com Training, consulting & add-ons: FrameMaker, Structured FM and Acrobat

Visio (2003) drawings into FrameMaker

2006-04-28 Thread David Creamer
> In our group we use EPS because that is a native file format for > Illustrator. Illustrator can have problems with certain PDF file format > versions and may not be able to successfully open and edit any > given PDF file. Technically, Illustrator uses a form of PDF as its native file format--ho

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Christiane Crety (CC)
Hi, I am using "Save as pdf" for an FM 7.2 book. I am wondering why each time I save as pdf the FrameMaker Console says: "The "Times" Font is not available."Times New Roman" will be used in this session." As far as I know I am not using Times in my FM book. Where could this be coming from? I

MS Word question

2006-04-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
I've been working on a .dot form for management reporting in MS Word (yes, I feel unclean!) I'd like to insert a graphic (question mark) that provides a pop-up window with some instructions when moused over in the .doc file. Is this something that can be done in Word? Word2003 WinXP OS Thanks,

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Loren... Have you tried DoBatch or DZBatcher? http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/cssIndex.htm http://www.datazone.com/english/overview/download.html If neither of these do the trick (or you want something specific for your files/process), a FrameScript or custom FDK plugin, can

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Wayne, I am sorry to correct you, but I have been doing Windows (and Mac) FrameMaker automation for the last 8 years with FrameScript, including complex FrameMaker to PDF workflows. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com >> Is there a more automated way to create PDF

Defaults on importing graphics

2006-04-28 Thread Robert Stoker
Kevin, Our Graphfix plug-in may be able to help you with some of your issues. Download the trial version from our website (www.seatechpubs.com). Choose "Services" and then "Plug-ins." To solve your anchored-frame-size issue and partially solve your dpi issue, try the following: 1. Load the pl

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Bill Briggs
At 9:39 AM -0400 4/28/06, Loren R. Elks wrote: >Our company currently has a documentation set of 53 FrameMaker books that we >PDF for easy access. We create PDFs using the TimeSavers utility to preserve >link integrity. To do this we first have to open each book separately. Then we >must run UPD

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Bill Briggs
>>>Is there a more automated way to create PDFs from 53 FrameMaker >>>books? Or is there a quicker way to set up this process from >>>FrameMaker? Are there any programs that could help automate these >>>processes? Do your companies hold any best practices that we could >>>benefit from? >> >>I know

Defaults on importing graphics

2006-04-28 Thread Paul Findon
On 27 Apr 2006, at 20:38, Kevin Hunter wrote: > Now I have a couple of questions relating to default settings on > importing > files. I mainly work on user's guides with walk-through type > instructions > with many screen shots of our software. To pull in my images I use Esc > + > fif, and pick

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Paul Findon
On 28 Apr 2006, at 16:49, Bill Briggs wrote: > You didn't say what platform you were on. If you were on a Mac then > it's an easy thing to do with AppleScript. You can automate all sorts > of FrameMaker tasks with AppleScript, including this. Hey, I was going to say that ;-) We use AppleScrip

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Rick Quatro
Wayne, No scripting language is "painless"; I have enough AppleScript experience to know that AppleScript is no exception. Although Mac users already have AppleScript, it will take some effort for them to learn how to use it, just like they would with FrameScript. I am not anti-Mac or pro-PC,

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Marcus Streets
Wayne Brissette wrote: >> I am sorry to correct you, but I have been doing Windows (and Mac) >> FrameMaker automation for the last 8 years with FrameScript, including >> complex FrameMaker to PDF workflows. > > Rick: > > My comment if you read it was that you can do it painlessly with AppleScri

Visio (2003) drawings into FrameMaker

2006-04-28 Thread Paul Findon
On 28 Apr 2006, at 13:54, David Creamer wrote: > That being said, with older page-layout programs (Frame, Quark, etc.), > I > would stick with EPS for most vector art. So I would save an > Illustrator > file as an EPS. An old trick to improve the preview is to make the > vector > graphic larger

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Paul Findon
On 28 Apr 2006, at 16:59, Bill Briggs wrote: > This is certainly AppleScript's great strength. With Mac OS X, you can probably do the job with a UNIX script? Now where's that terminal... Open "/Applications/FrameMaker 7.0" foo.fm Paul

MS Manual of Style -- this month's guest at the Hmmm... corner

2006-04-28 Thread Paul Findon
On 31 Mar 2006, at 00:59, Shlomo Perets wrote: > The PDF "e-book" that comes with Microsoft Manual of Style, 3rd > edition, is this month's guest at the Hmmm... corner at microtype.com. > Authored with FrameMaker 7.0, this PDF has a total of ... one link > (which happens to be a bad link), s

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Art Campbell
It's probably a carry over from an older set of tags or imported text from another file. If you're sure it's not affecting any tags, just turn off Remember Missing Font Names in Preferences, open the file and save again. That should clear it. Occasionally, you'll need to safe as a MIF, open that a

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Wayne Brissette wrote: > My comment if you read it was that you can do it painlessly > with AppleScript. A scripting language that many people use > and write in. I also said "...if not, I don't have a good > answer for you." That wasn't to say there weren't options. > But with the exception

Importing PDF Graphics vs. EPS Graphics

2006-04-28 Thread Mike Wickham
> In fact, PDF is converted to EPS when imported into FrameMaker. I had never tried opening PDFs in FrameMaker. Upon seeing the above statement from Dov, it piqued my curiosity and I gave it a try. I converted an EPS graphic to EPS and imported it. It appears there are advantages to using PDF g

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:20 -0600 28/4/06, Richard 'Curmudgeons 'r Us' Combs wrote: >Jeez. Apple has a _tiny_percentage_ of the personal computer market, Currently about 2.3 percent, but we're getting there ;-) >and only a _miniscule_sliver_ of that small number of Mac owners are also FM >users. Not sure 'bout th

Importing PDF Graphics vs. EPS Graphics

2006-04-28 Thread Fred Ridder
Funny you should ask about CMYK colors... I just had occasion to run some tests between EPS and PDF versions of a single-color graphic (a logo) that used RGB and CMYK definitons of that color. When I inserted the graphics that used the RGB color definition int a FrameMaker document, the EPS and P

Defaults on importing graphics

2006-04-28 Thread Debbi Correia
Kevin Hunter wrote: The next step is that I then have to adjust the size and alignment of the resulting anchored frame; it's initially centered, and I need it to be left aligned. The image inside the frame is initially against the left of the frame, I need it 2cm from the left margin of the fram

Need Help Automating FrameMaker / PDF Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Shlomo Perets
Loren, You wrote: >Our company currently has a documentation set of 53 FrameMaker books that >we PDF for easy access. We create PDFs using the TimeSavers utility to >preserve link integrity. To do this we first have to open each book >separately. Then we must run UPDATE BOOK on each FrameMake

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Ridder, Fred
It occurs to me that if Christine is getting the unavailable fonts message only when she's attempting to create a PDF, the font problem may not be in the text of the document because if it were she'd be getting the unavailable fonts message when she *opens* the file. My guess is that the offendin

Importing PDF Graphics vs. EPS Graphics

2006-04-28 Thread John Posada
> It makes me want to switch my graphics from EPS to PDF, > but it's probably too good to be true. Are there > disadvantages that I am overlooking-- Where I am now, w do all of our FM images by importing PDFs. If there are any donwsides, we haven't found them, and we have many books. John Posa

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:57 -0400 28/4/06, Ridder, Fred wrote: >It occurs to me that if Christine is getting the unavailable fonts message >only when she's attempting to create a PDF, the font problem may not be in the >text of the document because if it were she'd be getting the unavailable >fonts message when

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread donandjudy1
Christine: I've had the same problem. Best as I can recall, it popped up when trying to "Save as PDF" when my HP deskjet was listed as the default printer. However, in my case, FM did no automatic switching. When I saved the PDF nothing showed up, despite the distiller going through its thing. I

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 19:18 +0100 28/4/06, Steve Rickaby wrote: >My eventual conclusion was that FrameMaker can quirrel... Dang: 'squirrel...'. Whatever. -- Steve

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Ridder, Fred
That is an excellent statement of the one remaining "gotcha" with the Save As PDF feature. It was really broken in 5.x, partly fixed in 6.0, and mostly fixed in 7.x, but still only works reliably if the default printer for FrameMaker is Adobe PDF. Somebody has a plug-in that can configure FrameM

PDF & FrameMaker Page Numbers

2006-04-28 Thread donandjudy1
Okay, guys, Seems to me, somebody just covered this topic less than a week ago. So I looked all over my hard drive, in my e-mails and save-as text files and couldn't find it anywhere. Sorry. *What does one do to get the page numbers in a PDF to match those in the FrameMaker document? * Thanks in

PDF & FrameMaker Page Numbers

2006-04-28 Thread Rick Quatro
My PageLabeler plugin is does this. See http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/ Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Okay, guys, > > Seems to me, somebody just covered this topic less than a week ago. So I > looked all over my hard drive, in my e-mails and save-as text fi

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:48:18 -0400, "Ridder, Fred" wrote: >Somebody >has a plug-in that can configure FrameMaker to have a different >default printer than the Windows default, but I don't remember >the details at the moment That would be Sundorne's excellent and free plugin SetPrint: http:/

PDF & FrameMaker Page Numbers

2006-04-28 Thread John Posada
Rick...if I may... My group uses this plugin...it is one of the two or three plugins that we consider a mandatory addition to FM. --- Rick Quatro wrote: > My PageLabeler plugin is does this. See > http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/ John Posada Senior Technical Writer "So long and thanks for

PDF & FrameMaker Page Numbers

2006-04-28 Thread Art Campbell
I use Rick's plug in; the alternative is to open the pdf in Acrobat, go to the Pages tab, and set the numbering manually. Art On 4/28/06, donandjudy1 wrote: > *What does one do to get the page numbers in a PDF to match those in the > FrameMaker document? * > > Thanks in advance and sorry once mo

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Fred Ridder
Thanks, Jeremy. I knew *somebody* would be able to provide the details! -Fred Ridder >From: "Jeremy H. Griffith" >To: framers at frameusers.com >Subject: Re: Unavailable font >Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:14:26 -0700 > >On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:48:18 -0400, "Ridder, Fred" > wrote: > > >Somebody > >h

Unbreaking dash

2006-04-28 Thread John Posada
Hi, guys...In FM, I need to put the word CD-ROM in a chapter title and it breaks at the dash. What's the key sequence to prevent it from breaking? Thanks John Posada Senior Technical Writer "So long and thanks for all the fish."

Unbreaking dash

2006-04-28 Thread Art Campbell
The Quick Ref Card and page 111 of the manual say the nonbreaking hyphen is Esc - h Art On 4/28/06, John Posada wrote: > Hi, guys...In FM, I need to put the word CD-ROM in a chapter title > and it breaks at the dash. What's the key sequence to prevent it from > breaking? -- Art Campbell

Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Bill Briggs
At 6:37 PM +0100 4/28/06, Steve Rickaby wrote: >AppleScript is niche, FrameScript is niche. Writing AppleScript for FrameMaker is as "nichy" as it gets. I know maybe half a dozen people who use AppleScript with FrameMaker. I think all but one of them is on this list. And it's truly a pity that

Unbreaking dash

2006-04-28 Thread John Posada
> The Quick Ref Card and page 111 of the manual say the nonbreaking > hyphen is > Esc - h That doesn't seem to be it. I want to insert the -...I just don't want the break to happen at that point. Right now, my heading text is: UNIX Procedures for CD-ROMs Left to its own devices, I end up

Unbreaking dash - Retraction

2006-04-28 Thread John Posada
Never mind...you were right. --- John Posada wrote: > > The Quick Ref Card and page 111 of the manual say the nonbreaking > > hyphen is > > Esc - h > > That doesn't seem to be it. I want to insert the -...I just don't > want the break to happen at that point. John Posada Senior Technical

Unbreaking dash

2006-04-28 Thread Lin Surasky
Esc - h (Escape key, hyphen, h) is what I've always used. Works for me! > -Original Message- > From: > framers-bounces+lin.surasky=retalix.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+lin.surasky=retalix.com at lists.frameuse rs.com] On Behalf Of John Posada > Sent: Friday, Apri

Unbreaking dash

2006-04-28 Thread Art Campbell
Just to clarify, those are three keys, not two separated by a dash. Press Esc, the hyphen/dash key, and h. Art On 4/28/06, John Posada wrote: > > The Quick Ref Card and page 111 of the manual say the nonbreaking > > hyphen is > > Esc - h > > That doesn't seem to be it. I want to insert the

images for mif2go

2006-04-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:06:57 +, obair81 at comcast.net wrote: >If I am writing a doc set with which I may have to use >mif2go to make a Word version of the Frame book (long >story), is it true that I should be putting only BMPs >in my Frame file, Not necessarily. You simply need to have

RE: Visio (2003) drawings into FrameMaker (7.2, unstructured)?

2006-04-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker doesn't "RIP" anything ... In fact, PDF is converted to EPS when imported into FrameMaker. Other "image" formats or for that matter, other graphic formats are NOT turned into EPS. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Seeing double (April Hmmm...)

2006-04-28 Thread Shlomo Perets
See current Hmmm... at http://www.microtype.com/homeHmmm.html Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com Training, consulting & add-ons: FrameMaker, Structured FM and Acrobat ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Visio (2003) drawings into FrameMaker

2006-04-28 Thread David Creamer
> In our group we use EPS because that is a native file format for > Illustrator. Illustrator can have problems with certain PDF file format > versions and may not be able to successfully open and edit any > given PDF file. Technically, Illustrator uses a form of PDF as its native file format--ho

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Christiane Crety \(CC\)
Hi, I am using "Save as pdf" for an FM 7.2 book. I am wondering why each time I save as pdf the FrameMaker Console says: "The "Times" Font is not available."Times New Roman" will be used in this session." As far as I know I am not using Times in my FM book. Where could this be coming from?

MS Word question

2006-04-28 Thread Martinek, Carla
I've been working on a .dot form for management reporting in MS Word (yes, I feel unclean!) I'd like to insert a graphic (question mark) that provides a pop-up window with some instructions when moused over in the .doc file. Is this something that can be done in Word? Word2003 WinXP OS Than

Re: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Loren... Have you tried DoBatch or DZBatcher? http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/cssIndex.htm http://www.datazone.com/english/overview/download.html If neither of these do the trick (or you want something specific for your files/process), a FrameScript or custom FDK plugin, can d

Re: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Wayne, I am sorry to correct you, but I have been doing Windows (and Mac) FrameMaker automation for the last 8 years with FrameScript, including complex FrameMaker to PDF workflows. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Is there a more automated way to create PDF

Defaults on importing graphics

2006-04-28 Thread Robert Stoker
Kevin, Our Graphfix plug-in may be able to help you with some of your issues. Download the trial version from our website (www.seatechpubs.com). Choose "Services" and then "Plug-ins." To solve your anchored-frame-size issue and partially solve your dpi issue, try the following: 1. Load the

Re: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Bill Briggs
At 9:39 AM -0400 4/28/06, Loren R. Elks wrote: >Our company currently has a documentation set of 53 FrameMaker books that we >PDF for easy access. We create PDFs using the TimeSavers utility to preserve >link integrity. To do this we first have to open each book separately. Then we >must run UPD

Re: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Bill Briggs
>>>Is there a more automated way to create PDFs from 53 FrameMaker >>>books? Or is there a quicker way to set up this process from >>>FrameMaker? Are there any programs that could help automate these >>>processes? Do your companies hold any best practices that we could >>>benefit from? >> >>I know

Re: Defaults on importing graphics

2006-04-28 Thread Paul Findon
On 27 Apr 2006, at 20:38, Kevin Hunter wrote: Now I have a couple of questions relating to default settings on importing files. I mainly work on user's guides with walk-through type instructions with many screen shots of our software. To pull in my images I use Esc + fif, and pick an image fil

Re: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Paul Findon
On 28 Apr 2006, at 16:49, Bill Briggs wrote: You didn't say what platform you were on. If you were on a Mac then it's an easy thing to do with AppleScript. You can automate all sorts of FrameMaker tasks with AppleScript, including this. Hey, I was going to say that ;-) We use AppleScript, w

Re: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Rick Quatro
Wayne, No scripting language is "painless"; I have enough AppleScript experience to know that AppleScript is no exception. Although Mac users already have AppleScript, it will take some effort for them to learn how to use it, just like they would with FrameScript. I am not anti-Mac or pro-PC

Re: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Marcus Streets
Wayne Brissette wrote: >> I am sorry to correct you, but I have been doing Windows (and Mac) >> FrameMaker automation for the last 8 years with FrameScript, including >> complex FrameMaker to PDF workflows. > > Rick: > > My comment if you read it was that you can do it painlessly with AppleScri

Re: Visio (2003) drawings into FrameMaker

2006-04-28 Thread Paul Findon
On 28 Apr 2006, at 13:54, David Creamer wrote: That being said, with older page-layout programs (Frame, Quark, etc.), I would stick with EPS for most vector art. So I would save an Illustrator file as an EPS. An old trick to improve the preview is to make the vector graphic larger than necessa

Re: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Paul Findon
On 28 Apr 2006, at 16:59, Bill Briggs wrote: This is certainly AppleScript's great strength. With Mac OS X, you can probably do the job with a UNIX script? Now where's that terminal... Open "/Applications/FrameMaker 7.0" foo.fm Paul ___ You are

Re: MS Manual of Style -- this month's guest at the Hmmm... corner

2006-04-28 Thread Paul Findon
On 31 Mar 2006, at 00:59, Shlomo Perets wrote: The PDF "e-book" that comes with Microsoft Manual of Style, 3rd edition, is this month's guest at the Hmmm... corner at microtype.com. Authored with FrameMaker 7.0, this PDF has a total of ... one link (which happens to be a bad link), see ht

Re: Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Art Campbell
It's probably a carry over from an older set of tags or imported text from another file. If you're sure it's not affecting any tags, just turn off Remember Missing Font Names in Preferences, open the file and save again. That should clear it. Occasionally, you'll need to safe as a MIF, open that

RE: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Wayne Brissette wrote: > My comment if you read it was that you can do it painlessly > with AppleScript. A scripting language that many people use > and write in. I also said "...if not, I don't have a good > answer for you." That wasn't to say there weren't options. > But with the exception

Importing PDF Graphics vs. EPS Graphics

2006-04-28 Thread Mike Wickham
In fact, PDF is converted to EPS when imported into FrameMaker. I had never tried opening PDFs in FrameMaker. Upon seeing the above statement from Dov, it piqued my curiosity and I gave it a try. I converted an EPS graphic to EPS and imported it. It appears there are advantages to using PDF

RE: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:20 -0600 28/4/06, Richard 'Curmudgeons 'r Us' Combs wrote: >Jeez. Apple has a _tiny_percentage_ of the personal computer market, Currently about 2.3 percent, but we're getting there ;-) >and only a _miniscule_sliver_ of that small number of Mac owners are also FM >users. Not sure 'bout th

RE: Importing PDF Graphics vs. EPS Graphics

2006-04-28 Thread Fred Ridder
Funny you should ask about CMYK colors... I just had occasion to run some tests between EPS and PDF versions of a single-color graphic (a logo) that used RGB and CMYK definitons of that color. When I inserted the graphics that used the RGB color definition int a FrameMaker document, the EPS and

RE: Defaults on importing graphics

2006-04-28 Thread Debbi Correia
Kevin Hunter wrote: The next step is that I then have to adjust the size and alignment of the resulting anchored frame; it's initially centered, and I need it to be left aligned. The image inside the frame is initially against the left of the frame, I need it 2cm from the left margin of the fram

Re: Need Help Automating FrameMaker / PDF Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Shlomo Perets
Loren, You wrote: Our company currently has a documentation set of 53 FrameMaker books that we PDF for easy access. We create PDFs using the TimeSavers utility to preserve link integrity. To do this we first have to open each book separately. Then we must run UPDATE BOOK on each FrameMaker b

RE: Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Ridder, Fred
It occurs to me that if Christine is getting the unavailable fonts message only when she's attempting to create a PDF, the font problem may not be in the text of the document because if it were she'd be getting the unavailable fonts message when she *opens* the file. My guess is that the offendin

Re: Importing PDF Graphics vs. EPS Graphics

2006-04-28 Thread John Posada
> It makes me want to switch my graphics from EPS to PDF, > but it's probably too good to be true. Are there > disadvantages that I am overlooking-- Where I am now, w do all of our FM images by importing PDFs. If there are any donwsides, we haven't found them, and we have many books. John Posa

RE: Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:57 -0400 28/4/06, Ridder, Fred wrote: >It occurs to me that if Christine is getting the unavailable fonts message >only when she's attempting to create a PDF, the font problem may not be in the >text of the document because if it were she'd be getting the unavailable >fonts message when

RE: Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread donandjudy1
Christine: I've had the same problem. Best as I can recall, it popped up when trying to "Save as PDF" when my HP deskjet was listed as the default printer. However, in my case, FM did no automatic switching. When I saved the PDF nothing showed up, despite the distiller going through its thing. I

RE: Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 19:18 +0100 28/4/06, Steve Rickaby wrote: >My eventual conclusion was that FrameMaker can quirrel... Dang: 'squirrel...'. Whatever. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Ridder, Fred
That is an excellent statement of the one remaining "gotcha" with the Save As PDF feature. It was really broken in 5.x, partly fixed in 6.0, and mostly fixed in 7.x, but still only works reliably if the default printer for FrameMaker is Adobe PDF. Somebody has a plug-in that can configure FrameM

PDF & FrameMaker Page Numbers

2006-04-28 Thread donandjudy1
Okay, guys, Seems to me, somebody just covered this topic less than a week ago. So I looked all over my hard drive, in my e-mails and save-as text files and couldn't find it anywhere. Sorry. *What does one do to get the page numbers in a PDF to match those in the FrameMaker document? * Thanks in

Re: PDF & FrameMaker Page Numbers

2006-04-28 Thread Rick Quatro
My PageLabeler plugin is does this. See http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/ Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Okay, guys, Seems to me, somebody just covered this topic less than a week ago. So I looked all over my hard drive, in my e-mails and save-as text files a

Re: Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:48:18 -0400, "Ridder, Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Somebody >has a plug-in that can configure FrameMaker to have a different >default printer than the Windows default, but I don't remember >the details at the moment That would be Sundorne's excellent and free plugin

Re: PDF & FrameMaker Page Numbers

2006-04-28 Thread John Posada
Rick...if I may... My group uses this plugin...it is one of the two or three plugins that we consider a mandatory addition to FM. --- Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My PageLabeler plugin is does this. See > http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/ John Posada Senior Technical Writer "So

Re: PDF & FrameMaker Page Numbers

2006-04-28 Thread Art Campbell
I use Rick's plug in; the alternative is to open the pdf in Acrobat, go to the Pages tab, and set the numbering manually. Art On 4/28/06, donandjudy1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *What does one do to get the page numbers in a PDF to match those in the FrameMaker document? * Thanks in advance and

Re: Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Fred Ridder
Thanks, Jeremy. I knew *somebody* would be able to provide the details! -Fred Ridder From: "Jeremy H. Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: framers@frameusers.com Subject: Re: Unavailable font Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:14:26 -0700 On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:48:18 -0400, "Ridder, Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Unbreaking dash

2006-04-28 Thread John Posada
Hi, guys...In FM, I need to put the word CD-ROM in a chapter title and it breaks at the dash. What's the key sequence to prevent it from breaking? Thanks John Posada Senior Technical Writer "So long and thanks for all the fish." ___ You are currently

Re: Unbreaking dash

2006-04-28 Thread Art Campbell
The Quick Ref Card and page 111 of the manual say the nonbreaking hyphen is Esc - h Art On 4/28/06, John Posada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, guys...In FM, I need to put the word CD-ROM in a chapter title and it breaks at the dash. What's the key sequence to prevent it from breaking? --

RE: Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

2006-04-28 Thread Bill Briggs
At 6:37 PM +0100 4/28/06, Steve Rickaby wrote: >AppleScript is niche, FrameScript is niche. Writing AppleScript for FrameMaker is as "nichy" as it gets. I know maybe half a dozen people who use AppleScript with FrameMaker. I think all but one of them is on this list. And it's truly a pity that

Re: Unbreaking dash

2006-04-28 Thread John Posada
> The Quick Ref Card and page 111 of the manual say the nonbreaking > hyphen is > Esc - h That doesn't seem to be it. I want to insert the -...I just don't want the break to happen at that point. Right now, my heading text is: UNIX Procedures for CD-ROMs Left to its own devices, I end up

Re: Unbreaking dash - Retraction

2006-04-28 Thread John Posada
Never mind...you were right. --- John Posada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Quick Ref Card and page 111 of the manual say the nonbreaking > > hyphen is > > Esc - h > > That doesn't seem to be it. I want to insert the -...I just don't > want the break to happen at that point. John Posa

RE: Unbreaking dash

2006-04-28 Thread Lin Surasky
Esc - h (Escape key, hyphen, h) is what I've always used. Works for me! > -Original Message- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] rs.com] On Behalf Of John Posada > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:50 PM > To: Art Campbell > Cc: List, Framers > Subject: Re: Unbreaking da

Re: Unbreaking dash

2006-04-28 Thread Art Campbell
Just to clarify, those are three keys, not two separated by a dash. Press Esc, the hyphen/dash key, and h. Art On 4/28/06, John Posada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Quick Ref Card and page 111 of the manual say the nonbreaking > hyphen is > Esc - h That doesn't seem to be it. I want t

images for mif2go

2006-04-28 Thread obair81
If I am writing a doc set with which I may have to use mif2go to make a Word version of the Frame book (long story), is it true that I should be putting only BMPs in my Frame file, since I believe I recall someone saying that non-BMP images in Frame do not always turn out sized properly in Word

Re: images for mif2go

2006-04-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:06:57 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If I am writing a doc set with which I may have to use >mif2go to make a Word version of the Frame book (long >story), is it true that I should be putting only BMPs >in my Frame file, Not necessarily. You simply need to have a .bm