Nandini Garud wrote:
> Is FrameMaker smart to look to "copy of..." files for latest
> info just as it
> asks to use the "recover" files instead?
No, it's not. FrameMaker will look for Autosave and Recovery files, but
not for any others.
I'm not clear on how you ended up with the files named "C
Wim Hooghwinkel (Scriptware) wrote :
> Hello all,
>
> we managed to get the proper CE characters in FrameMaker
> (XML), but now the tcaron won't print to PDF. It prints to
> our postscript printer, but in the pdf there is an empty
> space. We print to adobe pdf (Acr. 6) printer. What can be
> the
Mary Haas wrote :
> Hello Framers,
> I will soon be converting my Mac Frame 7 documents to Frame 7 on the
> PC. My Mac is getting old and the organization wants the jobs on PC.
> My documents are both published (web-press) from high resolution PDFs
> and posted on the web as Web-ready PDFs. With n
Hello Framers,
I'm looking for a free, sans serif, knockout font, with a similar look
as the Arial font.
I'm trying to get past using two different font attributes (color: white
or black) for callouts on dark, light and mottled backgrounds. I
noticed in an old Troy-Bilt manual, that they success
Hi,
Another possibility is to set up a network drive on a server that has
Distiller installed on it, and share the watched in-out folders. That way,
many people can use one installation of Distiller. I guess it's possible that
would violate some copyright law, so I'm only suggesting it based on
re
Hi Guy,
OK, I checked with the writer in question, and he reported that what he
did was a copy-and-paste operation. But, to avoid the selection coming
in as an embedded Word object, he selected "Paste as Special" and then
selected the "Text" option. He was under the impression that that would
bri
At 12:16 PM +0200 5/22/06, Harro de Jong wrote:
>And another (This is starting to sound like the Spanish inquisition
>sketch from Monty Python): the PC FrameMaker version doesn't support the
>Publish & Subscribe mechanism.
Pict images from the Mac don't work on the PC side. EPS files with Pict
p
Hi Z,
You wrote:
"One other product I found while googling is www.pdf995.com! This has a
pretty outstanding price for the Enterprise license. Has anybody used
their stuff?"
I have not used the enterprise version, but I used to use the regular
version of pdf995, and I loved it! It does a great j
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a way to insert a mailto hyperlink for an email address in
FM and am failing miserably. FM offers an array of hypertext commands
(creating alert messages and the like...) but I can't find a means to
convert an email address to a hyperlink which pops up a mail window
Hi Sharon,
try this:
message URL mailto:support at yourcompany.com
Good luck.
--
Yves Barbion
Technical Writer
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
U&I Learning nv (formerly ATeK nv)
Molenaarsstraat 111
B-9000 Gent
Belgium
Tel.: +32 9 265 74 72
Fax: +32
Hi Sharon,
Do this:
1. Select the text you would like to make a hyperlink.
2. Click Special -> Hypertext
3. Select the Go to URL command.
4. Enter message URL mailto:name at company.com
That should do if for you.
If you want the selected text to appear in blue you will have to
attr
>From what I understand, my company installs pdf995 on everyone's machine and
that is the default pdf maker for the company. (IDD, marketing and a few
others use Acrobat Pro.)
I have used it at home for simple PDFs and it works great. Never used it at
work.
Mike
-Original Message-
From:
This has saved me much hell in auto-numbering and bullets in Word -
http://www.tech-tav.com/macro.htm. They are free macros from tech-tav
(authorIT producers) that automate autonumbering, bullets, etc. in Word.
They work like a charm and they are based on Framemaker principles. All my
developer
Setting up a watched folder on a network drive that can be
accessed by more than one user is specifically prohibited
by the Acrobat EULA. It's not a matter of violating "some
copyright law", but it is certainly *not*permitted* under the
software license. Adobe does have licenses that permit this
You can use PureText to paste the text in without formatting. It's faster
than pasting into Notepad, and is the equivalent.
--
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Beck, Charles wrote:
Hi Guy,
OK, I checked with the writer in question, and he reported that what he
did was a copy-and-paste
Thanks, Shmuel, but I don't see a PureText option in the Paste Special
dialog box. The closest I can find is one labeled Text-but as I said,
that one is *not* the equivalent as pasting into Notepad and then
copying and pasting from there. That-the Text option-was the option we
were using that intro
Note, however, that this command calls the e-mail client
via the browser, which may or may not be configured to
use the primary e-mail client. And some users object to
the fact that a browser window may open briefly before
an e-mail message window appears.
My opinions only; I don't speak for Inte
I'm pretty sure he means this:
http://stevemiller.net/puretext/
-Niels
-> -Original Message-
-> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com
-> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com]
-> On Behalf Of Beck, Charles
-> Sent: 22. maj 2006 16:49
->
Fred,
You wrote:
>Note, however, that this command calls the e-mail client
>via the browser, which may or may not be configured to
>use the primary e-mail client. And some users object to
>the fact that a browser window may open briefly before
>an e-mail message window appears.
This applies to A
Thanks for the update, Shlomo. It's always nice to learn that
some of the annoyances we've lived with for so long are actually
getting fixed.
My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ
-Original Message-
From: Shlomo Pe
I have fought the CE font battle for many months. I found a Knowledge Base
article on Adobe.com that suggests this problem can be resolved by
downloading the current version of Postscript from Adobe and installing it
on your computer. (Try URL
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/324972.html i
Mary, I am using XP Pro and Frame 7 with virtually no problems.
I recommend you upgrade your Acrobat to vers. 7 Pro. My life has improved
since I upgraded from vers. 5 to vers. 7, mostly because more and more
people are using 7 and not saving "down" their versions.
You can use PC Postscript fon
> -Original Message-
> From: frameusers.com
> On Behalf Of Harro de Jong
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 3:16 AM
> To: Mary Haas; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Need Help Mac to PC
>
> Mary Haas wrote :
> ...
> >
> > Fonts: On the Mac I use only Adobe Postscript fonts (mo
To all who have sent me advice about transferring Frame from Mac to
PC, thank you. Since this info was sent to my email address, not the
listing, and some has extra information about resources, how shall I
share it? I'm sure there are plenty of other folks who will have to
switch platforms. S
On this forum a few months ago I learned that the problematic MS Word
"hidden control character" can be found and destroyed by typing "\x0d"
(zero, not Oh) in the find/change box and changing it to nothing. This,
for my purposes, seems to do the same thing as the MIF cycle described
below, and is f
The Adobe Knowledgebase article you refer to has nothing
to do with any problems associated with inability to print
CE characters. And it does not suggest that you can solve
anything by "downloading the current version of PostScript
from Adobe and installing it on your computer."
The article in qu
Hello everyone,
I'm editing graphics in PSP and importing them into a table in FM.
The problem is that all of the
graphics have a green hue or "glow" to them--like they're radioactive :).
These same graphics look fine inside
PSP and when viewed as thumbnails in Windows Explorer.
A
What graphic formats are you using?
And have you tried printing from PSP to a .PDF file and importing that?
Art
On 5/22/06, Andy Kelsall wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm editing graphics in PSP and importing them into a table in FM.
> The problem is that all of the
> graphics have a gre
Actually I had to use it when Acrobat (5) failed. It handled
"non-standard" pages much better. I could highly recommend it, but
they aren't paying me any... ;-) .
I believe there are some free out there, e.g. these open source:
http://www.reportlab.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Continuing in the saga of using numbered headings
I built my PDF and all of the numbers in the numbered heading, like
2.3.4 link to the proper section, but the title of that section does not
link. I want both the title and the numbers to link to the section.
Anyon know how to solve this proble
Oh, I agree... that flaw was the point I referenced obliquely (perhaps
too obliquely! ) in my initial post as the reason I almost did not
post the article. It would not have been ethical to simplay have
redacted any reference to the original author's suggestion --though I
was tempted.
I also thi
Hi Andy,
If you're going to print, .jpg is one of the poorer graphics formats
if you're going to print...
So you may want to try a different format or two just from that aspect.
Depending on your version of Frame (you don't specify), FM can import
a .pdf directly;
a .pdf it is a graphic file base
Dear Framers,
Because there were too many versions of the book files in the folder
"Old-New" on the network drive F, we created a new folder "CD5 Book Files"
on the same network drive F and transferred the latest copies and the book
to that folder. As Frame started looking for the graphics in the
Nandini,
Why don't you get a copy of Bruce Foster's Archive plug in, run it on
your original
book and use the files that the program includes in the archive directory.
http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/products.htm
Art
On 5/22/06, Nandini Garud wrote:
> Dear Framers,
>
> Because there wer
I have created a tag named SecID to identify sections in my book chapters.
It is set to autonumber according to the following format: S:Section
<$chapnum>\=\sm. I have this tag set to start at the top of page and I
auto-apply a Custom Master Page to the page that uses this Section ID.
This page
Using FrameMaker 7.2, unstructured.
This is how the files were transferred to the new location:
1. In Windows, 2000, from the "My computer" icon on the desktop, clicked and
went to the F (network) folder. The files were in CD5 folder >
CDNewOldFolder. The graphics and book files and the book were
I had this problem too. To solve it, I turned on all conditions and
paragraph tags. I noticed that on the section that wasn't numbering
correctly, there was a weird symbol. So I converted the heading to Body
tag, saved the file, then re-applied the proper style. It fixed the
problem.
Thanks,
Gi
Wim Hooghwinkel (Scriptware) wrote :
> Hello all,
>
> we managed to get the proper CE characters in FrameMaker
> (XML), but now the tcaron won't print to PDF. It prints to
> our postscript printer, but in the pdf there is an empty
> space. We print to adobe pdf (Acr. 6) printer. What can be
> the
Mary Haas wrote :
> Hello Framers,
> I will soon be converting my Mac Frame 7 documents to Frame 7 on the
> PC. My Mac is getting old and the organization wants the jobs on PC.
> My documents are both published (web-press) from high resolution PDFs
> and posted on the web as Web-ready PDFs. With n
Hello Framers,
I'm looking for a free, sans serif, knockout font, with a similar look
as the Arial font.
I'm trying to get past using two different font attributes (color: white
or black) for callouts on dark, light and mottled backgrounds. I
noticed in an old Troy-Bilt manual, that they succe
Hi,
Another possibility is to set up a network drive on a server that has
Distiller installed on it, and share the watched in-out folders. That way,
many people can use one installation of Distiller. I guess it's possible that
would violate some copyright law, so I'm only suggesting it based on
re
Hi Guy,
OK, I checked with the writer in question, and he reported that what he
did was a copy-and-paste operation. But, to avoid the selection coming
in as an embedded Word object, he selected "Paste as Special" and then
selected the "Text" option. He was under the impression that that would
bri
At 12:16 PM +0200 5/22/06, Harro de Jong wrote:
>And another (This is starting to sound like the Spanish inquisition
>sketch from Monty Python): the PC FrameMaker version doesn't support the
>Publish & Subscribe mechanism.
Pict images from the Mac don't work on the PC side. EPS files with Pict
p
Hi Z,
You wrote:
"One other product I found while googling is www.pdf995.com! This has a
pretty outstanding price for the Enterprise license. Has anybody used
their stuff?"
I have not used the enterprise version, but I used to use the regular
version of pdf995, and I loved it! It does a great j
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a way to insert a mailto hyperlink for an email address in
FM and am failing miserably. FM offers an array of hypertext commands
(creating alert messages and the like...) but I can't find a means to
convert an email address to a hyperlink which pops up a mail window
Hi Sharon,
try this:
message URL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good luck.
--
Yves Barbion
Technical Writer
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
U&I Learning nv (formerly ATeK nv)
Molenaarsstraat 111
B-9000 Gent
Belgium
Tel.: +32 9 265 74 72
Fax: +32 9 265 74
Hi Sharon,
Do this:
1. Select the text you would like to make a hyperlink.
2. Click Special -> Hypertext
3. Select the Go to URL command.
4. Enter message URL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That should do if for you.
If you want the selected text to appear in blue you will have to
attribute
>From what I understand, my company installs pdf995 on everyone's machine and
that is the default pdf maker for the company. (IDD, marketing and a few
others use Acrobat Pro.)
I have used it at home for simple PDFs and it works great. Never used it at
work.
Mike
-Original Message-
From:
This has saved me much hell in auto-numbering and bullets in Word -
http://www.tech-tav.com/macro.htm. They are free macros from tech-tav
(authorIT producers) that automate autonumbering, bullets, etc. in Word.
They work like a charm and they are based on Framemaker principles. All my
developer
Setting up a watched folder on a network drive that can be
accessed by more than one user is specifically prohibited
by the Acrobat EULA. It's not a matter of violating "some
copyright law", but it is certainly *not*permitted* under the
software license. Adobe does have licenses that permit this
You can use PureText to paste the text in without formatting. It's faster
than pasting into Notepad, and is the equivalent.
--
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Beck, Charles wrote:
Hi Guy,
OK, I checked with the writer in question, and he reported that what he
did was a copy-and-paste
Thanks, Shmuel, but I don't see a PureText option in the Paste Special
dialog box. The closest I can find is one labeled Text-but as I said,
that one is *not* the equivalent as pasting into Notepad and then
copying and pasting from there. That-the Text option-was the option we
were using that intro
Note, however, that this command calls the e-mail client
via the browser, which may or may not be configured to
use the primary e-mail client. And some users object to
the fact that a browser window may open briefly before
an e-mail message window appears.
My opinions only; I don't speak for Inte
I'm pretty sure he means this:
http://stevemiller.net/puretext/
-Niels
-> -Original Message-
-> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-> On Behalf Of Beck, Charles
-> Sent: 22. maj 2006 16:49
-> To: Shmuel Wolfson
-> Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
-> Subject: RE: Find
Fred,
You wrote:
Note, however, that this command calls the e-mail client
via the browser, which may or may not be configured to
use the primary e-mail client. And some users object to
the fact that a browser window may open briefly before
an e-mail message window appears.
This applies to Acr
Thanks for the update, Shlomo. It's always nice to learn that
some of the annoyances we've lived with for so long are actually
getting fixed.
My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ
-Original Message-
From: Shlomo Pe
I have fought the CE font battle for many months. I found a Knowledge Base
article on Adobe.com that suggests this problem can be resolved by
downloading the current version of Postscript from Adobe and installing it
on your computer. (Try URL
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/324972.html i
Mary, I am using XP Pro and Frame 7 with virtually no problems.
I recommend you upgrade your Acrobat to vers. 7 Pro. My life has improved
since I upgraded from vers. 5 to vers. 7, mostly because more and more
people are using 7 and not saving "down" their versions.
You can use PC Postscript fon
> -Original Message-
> From: frameusers.com
> On Behalf Of Harro de Jong
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 3:16 AM
> To: Mary Haas; framers@lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Need Help Mac to PC
>
> Mary Haas wrote :
> ...
> >
> > Fonts: On the Mac I use only Adobe Postscript fonts (most
To all who have sent me advice about transferring Frame from Mac to
PC, thank you. Since this info was sent to my email address, not the
listing, and some has extra information about resources, how shall I
share it? I'm sure there are plenty of other folks who will have to
switch platforms. S
On this forum a few months ago I learned that the problematic MS Word
"hidden control character" can be found and destroyed by typing "\x0d"
(zero, not Oh) in the find/change box and changing it to nothing. This,
for my purposes, seems to do the same thing as the MIF cycle described
below, and is f
The Adobe Knowledgebase article you refer to has nothing
to do with any problems associated with inability to print
CE characters. And it does not suggest that you can solve
anything by "downloading the current version of PostScript
from Adobe and installing it on your computer."
The article in qu
Hello everyone,
I'm editing graphics in PSP and importing them into a table in FM.
The problem is that all of the
graphics have a green hue or "glow" to them--like they're radioactive :).
These same graphics look fine inside
PSP and when viewed as thumbnails in Windows Explorer.
As
What graphic formats are you using?
And have you tried printing from PSP to a .PDF file and importing that?
Art
On 5/22/06, Andy Kelsall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm editing graphics in PSP and importing them into a table in FM.
The problem is that all of the
graphic
Actually I had to use it when Acrobat (5) failed. It handled
"non-standard" pages much better. I could highly recommend it, but
they aren't paying me any... ;-) .
I believe there are some free out there, e.g. these open source:
http://www.reportlab.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator
Continuing in the saga of using numbered headings
I built my PDF and all of the numbers in the numbered heading, like
2.3.4 link to the proper section, but the title of that section does not
link. I want both the title and the numbers to link to the section.
Anyon know how to solve this probl
Oh, I agree... that flaw was the point I referenced obliquely (perhaps
too obliquely! ) in my initial post as the reason I almost did not
post the article. It would not have been ethical to simplay have
redacted any reference to the original author's suggestion --though I
was tempted.
I also thi
Hi Andy,
If you're going to print, .jpg is one of the poorer graphics formats
if you're going to print...
So you may want to try a different format or two just from that aspect.
Depending on your version of Frame (you don't specify), FM can import
a .pdf directly;
a .pdf it is a graphic file bas
Dear Framers,
Because there were too many versions of the book files in the folder
"Old-New" on the network drive F, we created a new folder "CD5 Book Files"
on the same network drive F and transferred the latest copies and the book
to that folder. As Frame started looking for the graphics in the
Nandini,
Why don't you get a copy of Bruce Foster's Archive plug in, run it on
your original
book and use the files that the program includes in the archive directory.
http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/products.htm
Art
On 5/22/06, Nandini Garud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Framers,
B
I have created a tag named SecID to identify sections in my book chapters.
It is set to autonumber according to the following format: S:Section
<$chapnum>\=\sm. I have this tag set to start at the top of page and I
auto-apply a Custom Master Page to the page that uses this Section ID.
This page
Maybe you've got another tag using the S: series and that other tag resets the
numbering, and a paragraph uses the other tag after section 7.3. To see if this
is the problem, change the S: in your SecID to another letter that you're sure
no other scheme uses.
Cheers, Rebecca
>>> <[EMAIL PROTEC
Using FrameMaker 7.2, unstructured.
This is how the files were transferred to the new location:
1. In Windows, 2000, from the "My computer" icon on the desktop, clicked and
went to the F (network) folder. The files were in CD5 folder >
CDNewOldFolder. The graphics and book files and the book were
I had this problem too. To solve it, I turned on all conditions and
paragraph tags. I noticed that on the section that wasn't numbering
correctly, there was a weird symbol. So I converted the heading to Body
tag, saved the file, then re-applied the proper style. It fixed the
problem.
Thanks,
Gi
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