RE: 8.0.1 patch fixes FM Book to PDF issue

2007-12-01 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Randall, Believe it or not, I don't actually know. To get the patch, I clicked Help Updater in FM8 and it did the whole thing for me. During the update, it required that I close FM but that is all I had to do. Hope this helps. Diane -- -Original

RE: 8.0.1 patch fixes FM Book to PDF issue

2007-12-01 Thread Fred Ridder
Diane Gaskill wrote: To get the patch, I clicked Help Updater in FM8 and it did the whole thing for me. During the update, it required that I close FM but that is all I had to do. The online updater appears to be the only way to get the update. Strangely enough, there is no mention of

RE: Quark versus FrameMaker

2007-12-01 Thread David Creamer
Quark does not seem to have features for creating books which makes making a global change in the document very difficult. Quark, InDesign, and FrameMaker all have a similar book feature. There are differences in what they can sync however, based on what features they provide. For example,

Re: Table rules randomly dark in pdfs

2007-12-01 Thread Bill Swallow
Don't make yourself crazy over this - it's common, and is a online viewing problem that's been present in Adobe's Distiller for years. I thought it was the nature of PDFs for a long while until I noticed that PDFs created with RenderX XEP (what some writers I work with are using to press from DITA

Re: FrameMaker XML inDesign XML imports

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Emory
UniMerge is the solution. You create a report template in FrameMaker describing how each type of database record is to be processed and formatted, save it as a MIF file, and execute it on the database output. The result is fully-formatted, ready-to print output. The rport templated can include FM

RE: 8.0.1 patch fixes FM Book to PDF issue

2007-12-01 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Greg, Yes, it was free. :-) But they did not fix everything. I still have problems with my F9 key when trying to use keyboard shortcuts. the tag list does not stay in the field as it should. This is real problem because I rely on the shortcuts for all kinds of things. Not being able to

8.0.1 patch fixes FM Book to PDF issue

2007-12-01 Thread Fred Ridder
Diane Gaskill wrote: > To get the patch, I clicked Help > > Updater in FM8 and it did the whole thing for me. During the update, it > required that I close FM but that is all I had to do. The online updater appears to be the only way to get the update. Strangely enough, there is no mention of

Quark versus FrameMaker

2007-12-01 Thread David Creamer
> Quark does not > seem to have features for creating books which makes making a global > change in the document very difficult. Quark, InDesign, and FrameMaker all have a similar book feature. There are differences in what they can sync however, based on what features they provide. For example,

Table rules randomly dark in pdfs

2007-12-01 Thread Bill Swallow
Don't make yourself crazy over this - it's common, and is a online viewing problem that's been present in Adobe's Distiller for years. I thought it was the nature of PDFs for a long while until I noticed that PDFs created with RenderX XEP (what some writers I work with are using to press from DITA

FrameMaker XML inDesign XML imports

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Emory
UniMerge is the solution. You create a report template in FrameMaker describing how each type of database record is to be processed and formatted, save it as a MIF file, and execute it on the database output. The result is fully-formatted, ready-to print output. The rport templated can include FM

8.0.1 patch fixes FM Book to PDF issue

2007-12-01 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Greg, Yes, it was free. :-) But they did not fix everything. I still have problems with my F9 key when trying to use keyboard shortcuts. the tag list does not stay in the field as it should. This is real problem because I rely on the shortcuts for all kinds of things. Not being able to

8.0.1 patch fixes FM Book to PDF issue

2007-12-01 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Randall, Believe it or not, I don't actually know. To get the patch, I clicked Help > Updater in FM8 and it did the whole thing for me. During the update, it required that I close FM but that is all I had to do. Hope this helps. Diane -- -Original