Re: Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Hi Grant, In addition to the validation of cross-references during book updates there is another, not very well-known feature of FrameMaker to validate Hypertext links based on gotolink markers. The keyboard shortcut should be Esc v h (presumably for: validate hypertext) I guess it works,

Re: Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-21 Thread Shlomo Perets
Grant, You wrote: I've looked in the help and queried the archives, but have been unable to find the answer to the following: Is there a way to validate all the hypertext links in a book? Not xrefs, but hyperlinks. I know that they can be validated on insertion, but I'm looking for something

Re: Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:25:03 -0700, Grant Hogarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked in the help and queried the archives, but have been unable to find the answer to the following: Is there a way to validate all the hypertext links in a book? Not xrefs, but hyperlinks. I know that they can be

Re: Text flow oddity

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Grant: Search Google for framemaker text flow, framemaker parallel text flows, and similar terms. There was a discussion of the problem on one of the public FM lists or forums. One issue was that the old method of incorporating a tiny frame of one or the other flow on left or right master

RE: imported illustrator images appear as gray boxes

2007-12-21 Thread Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)
Are you creating the EPS with a TIFF preview? FrameMaker needs the TIFF preview to display on screen. Berny Gagne Lead Writer Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. Bolton, Ontario, Canada -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Harvey Sent:

imported illustrator images appear as gray boxes

2007-12-21 Thread Jon Harvey
Hi all, (FM 7.2 on Windows) I am trying to import an Adobe Illustrator .eps file into FrameMaker 7.2 but it comes in as a gray box. Is there a way to have it appear as intended? And why does it come in as a gray box? I know this has been mentioned before but I couldn't dig through the

FrameUser's Archive

2007-12-21 Thread Jon Harvey
Hi all, I just attempted to use the archive list at FrameUsers.com. Do I really need to know what month a particular message was posted before I can get an answer to an archived question? There seems to be no practical way to dig through the archives. If I'm missing something incredibly

RE: imported illustrator images appear as gray boxes

2007-12-21 Thread Jon Harvey
The illustrator Save As box does not provide the option to save with Tiff preview. Or any other option for that matter. The Illustrator help says that the Save As box is where I set the Tiff preview option. Why isn't the option there? This has become an Illustrator issue rather than an FM issue.

RE: imported illustrator images appear as gray boxes

2007-12-21 Thread Lester C. Smalley
In my copy of Illustrator (ver 10), I don't get to select including a preview for the EPS image until after I click save from the Save As command. Then a new dialog opens that allow me to set the preview info, as well as several other options. - Lester

Re: imported illustrator images appear as gray boxes

2007-12-21 Thread Kenneth C. Benson
Jon Harvey wrote: The illustrator Save As box does not provide the option to save with Tiff preview. Version and OS, please. Kenneth Benson Pegasus Type, Inc. www.pegtype.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send

Re: Hypertext links in Acrobat8 documents generated from FM8 don't work

2007-12-21 Thread Austin Meredith
We are feeling as if Adobe has just sabotaged our entire 15-year project. How could they have offered an upgrade that destroys hypertext? Our Kouroo project now has 212,974 files that have already been saved as FM8 since we upgraded a few weeks ago, so going back to FM7 seems difficult. We

Re: Hypertext links in Acrobat8 documents generated from FM8don't work

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Austin, I have FrameMaker 5.5.6, 6.0, 7.0, 7.2, and 8.0 installed on the same computer. When going back and forth from 7.x to 8.0, you may have issues with characters changing. For example, I had some Zapf Dingbat characters that changed when I upgraded a document to 8.0. If you need an

OT: Setting Modification Date From Commandline

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Framers, I am looking for a command line program that will allow me to set the modification date and time of a file. Thanks for any suggestions. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com ___ You are currently subscribed to

Unicode support of FrameMaker 8

2007-12-21 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hi all, I would never recommend using special chars in FM file or format names, but found the following issue with FrameMaker 8.0p266 (that worked in FM7): Clicking on the following hypertext marker results in an error: "message system explorer C:/Program Files/Adob?" (although the folder

Unicode support of FrameMaker 8

2007-12-21 Thread Klaus Mueller
(sorry for double posting ...) Hi all, I would never recommend using special chars in FM file or format names, but found the following issue with FrameMaker 8.0p266 (that worked in FM7): Clicking on the following hypertext marker results in an error: "message system explorer C:/Program

Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Müller-Hillebrand
Hi Grant, In addition to the validation of cross-references during book updates there is another, not very well-known feature of FrameMaker to validate Hypertext links based on gotolink markers. The keyboard shortcut should be Esc v h (presumably for: validate hypertext) I guess it works,

Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-21 Thread Shlomo Perets
Grant, You wrote: >I've looked in the help and queried the archives, but have been unable >to find the answer to the following: >Is there a way to validate all the hypertext links in a book? Not >xrefs, but hyperlinks. >I know that they can be validated on insertion, but I'm looking for

Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:25:03 -0700, "Grant Hogarth" wrote: >I've looked in the help and queried the archives, but have been unable >to find the answer to the following: >Is there a way to validate all the hypertext links in a book? Not >xrefs, but hyperlinks. >I know that they can be validated

Text flow oddity

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Grant: Search Google for framemaker text flow, framemaker parallel text flows, and similar terms. There was a discussion of the problem on one of the public FM lists or forums. One issue was that the old method of incorporating a tiny frame of one or the other flow on left or right master

FrameUser's Archive

2007-12-21 Thread Jon Harvey
Hi all, I just attempted to use the archive list at FrameUsers.com. Do I really need to know what month a particular message was posted before I can get an answer to an archived question? There seems to be no practical way to dig through the archives. If I'm missing something incredibly

imported illustrator images appear as gray boxes

2007-12-21 Thread Jon Harvey
Hi all, (FM 7.2 on Windows) I am trying to import an Adobe Illustrator .eps file into FrameMaker 7.2 but it comes in as a gray box. Is there a way to have it appear as intended? And why does it come in as a gray box? I know this has been mentioned before but I couldn't dig through the

imported illustrator images appear as gray boxes

2007-12-21 Thread Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)
Are you creating the EPS with a TIFF preview? FrameMaker needs the TIFF preview to display on screen. Berny Gagne Lead Writer Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. Bolton, Ontario, Canada -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at

imported illustrator images appear as gray boxes

2007-12-21 Thread Jon Harvey
The illustrator Save As box does not provide the option to save with Tiff preview. Or any other option for that matter. The Illustrator help says that the Save As box is where I set the Tiff preview option. Why isn't the option there? This has become an Illustrator issue rather than an FM issue.

imported illustrator images appear as gray boxes

2007-12-21 Thread Lester C. Smalley
In my copy of Illustrator (ver 10), I don't get to select including a preview for the EPS image until after I click "save" from the Save As command. Then a new dialog opens that allow me to set the preview info, as well as several other options. - Lester

imported illustrator images appear as gray boxes

2007-12-21 Thread Kenneth C. Benson
Jon Harvey wrote: > The illustrator Save As box does not provide the option to save with > Tiff preview. Version and OS, please. Kenneth Benson Pegasus Type, Inc. www.pegtype.com

Hypertext links in Acrobat8 documents generated from FM8 don't work

2007-12-21 Thread Austin Meredith
>We are feeling as if Adobe has just sabotaged our entire 15-year >project. How could they have offered an "upgrade" that destroys hypertext? Our Kouroo project now has 212,974 files that have already been saved as FM8 since we "upgraded" a few weeks ago, so going back to FM7 seems difficult.

Hypertext links in Acrobat8 documents generated from FM8don't work

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Austin, I have FrameMaker 5.5.6, 6.0, 7.0, 7.2, and 8.0 installed on the same computer. When going back and forth from 7.x to 8.0, you may have issues with characters changing. For example, I had some Zapf Dingbat characters that changed when I upgraded a document to 8.0. If you need an

OT: Setting Modification Date From Commandline

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Framers, I am looking for a command line program that will allow me to set the modification date and time of a file. Thanks for any suggestions. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com

Setting Modification Date From Commandline

2007-12-21 Thread Andrew Warren
Rick Quatro wrote: > I am looking for a command line program that will allow me to set > the modification date and time of a file. Rick: A Google search for something like "file timestamp windows" will find hundreds of freeware Windows utilities for setting a file's timestamp arbitrarily...

Validating all hypertext links in a FM book?

2007-12-21 Thread Grant Hogarth
Thank you Michael!! I've been using FM since version 2.0, and I have to admit that if I ever knew this shortcut, I had long since forgotten it! Cheers Grant -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of

OT: Documenting Multiple Baseline Versions of Software

2007-12-21 Thread Lynette Schwend
Due to the implementation of baseline releases of our software (i.e. 1.1, 1.2, etc.), our support department is requesting final documentation within 60 days of the release to assist with customer support and for accountability/liability purposes. To provide some history, our techcomm group of