RE: Color Output From Frame

2008-02-29 Thread Jacob Schäffer
Framers, Unfortunately I mentioned in the second paragraph the additive and subtractive color models backwards. RGB is the *additive* model, based on the addition of luminous colors. CMYK is a subtractive model, based on the absorption (subtraction) of complementary colors from (nominally)

RE: Frame 7.2 and Vista

2008-02-29 Thread Phil Heron
Hi Edwin, I do have Frame 7.2 installed under Vista but I haven't been using it intensively on this platform - my primary working environment is still XP. There was no problem with the standard installation of Frame, but I didn't install the included Acrobat Distiller as I already have Acrobat

Job in Mobile AL / Pensacol FL area

2008-02-29 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Hello Framers: Anyone interested or know of anyone interested in a job as a tech writer in the aircraft industry? We need people with experience writing CMMs, AMMs, WDMs, IPCs, etc. in Framemaker. My company is located in Daphne, Alabama. Feel free to pass on my email address to anyone you

Re: Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Tina, This is impossible with FrameMaker alone. I thought perhaps Spell Catcher could handle it, as it does have commands for changing case to Title style, but even that simply capitalises the first letter of each word. A job for AppleScript perhaps? (NG to you unless you use Mac

advanced search in pdfs

2008-02-29 Thread mulholland4
Hi all, I want to add the advanced search feature to my pdfs by default, so that when the user opens the pdf the advanced search panel also opens, as well as the pdf and the bookmarks. Is there any way of doing this? I am using Adobe Acrobat 3D version 8 to produce the pdfs from postscript files

Re: Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Paul, For Windows FrameMaker, you can use FrameScript. If anyone is interested in a script like this, please contact me offlist. Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Hi Tina, This is impossible with FrameMaker alone. I thought perhaps Spell Catcher

Re: Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Peter Gold
In the days of FM/unix, before book-wide search/replace and other come-lately power features, something like this would be done with fmbatch and one or more of GREP, AWK, and SED text-manipulation tools. The general plan was to use control fmbatch with a unix script to convert all appropriate .fm

Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Pete Rourke
Hi Framers Another newbie question. On a generated index, I have a two column spread alphabetically. My problem is trying to find the right combination of 'keep with', Widow/Orphan lines, Format to keep it from leaving the Group Titles IX paragraph with its Index line at the bottom of a

Re: Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Peter, This is one of the strengths of MIF: that you can get an ASCII representation of your FM document and do manipulations like this. However, the advantage of FrameScript (and the FDK) is that you can work directly on the FrameMaker document (or book) without risk of corrupting the MIF

RE: Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Pete Rourke wrote: On a generated index, I have a two column spread alphabetically. My problem is trying to find the right combination of 'keep with', Widow/Orphan lines, Format to keep it from leaving the Group Titles IX paragraph with its Index line at the bottom of a column or

Re: Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Pete: You want to look at the free Tocbreaker plug-in from Cudspan. It's a little hard to find. Search with Google for tocbreaker cudspan framemaker tools and variations. I think leximation.com has a list of FM utilities and contacts. HTH Regards, Peter ___

Re: Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Rick: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, This is one of the strengths of MIF: that you can get an ASCII representation of your FM document and do manipulations like this. However, the advantage of FrameScript (and the FDK) is that you can

RE: Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Fred Ridder
IN responding to Pete, Peter wrote You want to look at the free Tocbreaker plug-in from Cudspan. It's a little hard to find. Search with Google for tocbreaker cudspan framemaker tools and variations. I think leximation.com has a list of FM utilities and contacts. The free Cudspan plug-ins

RE: Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Pete Rourke
All of myy Group Titles IX has the Keep With Next PGF checked with Widow/Orphan lines at 1, Format at In Column. And the reference pages IX flow is the same. I went through each index header letter, and they were all the Group Titles IX, but I did do the update all. This partially fixed my

RE: Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Pete Rourke wrote: I went through each index header letter, and they were all the Group Titles IX, but I did do the update all. This partially fixed my problem. It took care of all but one letter - O which with its index line is on one page, and the content is on the next. The column

RE: Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Pete Rourke
Thanks Richard The pgf format is GroupTitlesIX, and there is no asterisk on the status line. There is only one GroupTitlesIX format in the paragraph catalog, and re-applying the format changed nothing. I know that adding a new line above the broken pgf is an option were I on a hard deadline,

Re: Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Stuart Rogers
Pete Rourke wrote: On a generated index, I have a two column spread alphabetically. My problem is trying to find the right combination of 'keep with', Widow/Orphan lines, Format to keep it from leaving the Group Titles IX paragraph with its Index line at the bottom of a column or page, and

PDFMark Bookmarks

2008-02-29 Thread William Abernathy
My last attempt at getting this answered resulted in zero responses. I will assume that it was because my post was not a model of concision or clarity. So I'll try it again, hitting the highlights. When inserting PDFMark bookmarks to other PDF documents, is it possible to force the inserted

RE: PDFMark Bookmarks

2008-02-29 Thread Combs, Richard
William Abernathy wrote: My last attempt at getting this answered resulted in zero responses. I will assume that it was because my post was not a model of concision or clarity. So I'll try it again, hitting the highlights. When inserting PDFMark bookmarks to other PDF documents, is

RE: PDFMark Bookmarks

2008-02-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Minor clarification. I said: Where are you putting the PostScript code frame? I'm purely guessing, but I'd put it on the first body page of the doc, I should have said the first body page of the first file in the book. The point is to locate it ahead of all the other bookmark sources in

Color Output From Frame

2008-02-29 Thread Jacob Schäffer
Framers, Unfortunately I mentioned in the second paragraph the additive and subtractive color models backwards. RGB is the *additive* model, based on the addition of luminous colors. CMYK is a subtractive model, based on the absorption (subtraction) of complementary colors from (nominally)

Frame 7.2 and Vista

2008-02-29 Thread Phil Heron
Hi Edwin, I do have Frame 7.2 installed under Vista but I haven't been using it intensively on this platform - my primary working environment is still XP. There was no problem with the standard installation of Frame, but I didn't install the included Acrobat Distiller as I already have Acrobat 8

Job in Mobile AL / Pensacol FL area

2008-02-29 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Hello Framers: Anyone interested or know of anyone interested in a job as a tech writer in the aircraft industry? We need people with experience writing CMMs, AMMs, WDMs, IPCs, etc. in Framemaker. My company is located in Daphne, Alabama. Feel free to pass on my email address to anyone you

Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Tina, This is impossible with FrameMaker alone. I thought perhaps Spell Catcher could handle it, as it does have commands for changing case to Title style, but even that simply capitalises the first letter of each word. A job for AppleScript perhaps? (NG to you unless you use Mac

advanced search in pdfs

2008-02-29 Thread mulholland4
Hi all, I want to add the advanced search feature to my pdfs by default, so that when the user opens the pdf the advanced search panel also opens, as well as the pdf and the bookmarks. Is there any way of doing this? I am using Adobe Acrobat 3D version 8 to produce the pdfs from postscript files

Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Paul, For Windows FrameMaker, you can use FrameScript. If anyone is interested in a script like this, please contact me offlist. Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Hi Tina, > > This is impossible with FrameMaker alone. I thought perhaps Spell > Catcher

Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Peter Gold
In the days of FM/unix, before book-wide search/replace and other come-lately power features, something like this would be done with fmbatch and one or more of GREP, AWK, and SED text-manipulation tools. The general plan was to use control fmbatch with a unix script to convert all appropriate .fm

Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Pete Rourke
Hi Framers Another newbie question. On a generated index, I have a two column spread alphabetically. My problem is trying to find the right combination of 'keep with', Widow/Orphan lines, Format to keep it from leaving the Group Titles IX paragraph with its Index line at the bottom of a

Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Peter, This is one of the strengths of MIF: that you can get an ASCII representation of your FM document and do manipulations like this. However, the advantage of FrameScript (and the FDK) is that you can work directly on the FrameMaker document (or book) without risk of corrupting the MIF

Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Pete Rourke wrote: > On a generated index, I have a two column spread > alphabetically. My problem is trying to find the right > combination of 'keep with', Widow/Orphan lines, Format to > keep it from leaving the Group Titles IX paragraph with its > Index line at the bottom of a column or

Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Pete: You want to look at the free Tocbreaker plug-in from Cudspan. It's a little hard to find. Search with Google for tocbreaker cudspan framemaker tools and variations. I think leximation.com has a list of FM utilities and contacts. HTH Regards, Peter ___

Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Rick: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Peter, > > This is one of the strengths of MIF: that you can get an ASCII > representation of your FM document and do manipulations like this. However, > the advantage of FrameScript (and the FDK) is that you can work

Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Fred Ridder
IN responding to Pete, Peter wrote > You want to look at the free Tocbreaker plug-in from Cudspan. It's a > little hard to find. Search with Google for tocbreaker cudspan > framemaker tools and variations. I think leximation.com has a list of > FM utilities and contacts. The free Cudspan

Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Pete Rourke
All of myy Group Titles IX has the Keep With Next PGF checked with Widow/Orphan lines at 1, Format at In Column. And the reference pages IX flow is the same. I went through each index header letter, and they were all the Group Titles IX, but I did do the update all. This partially fixed my

Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Pete Rourke wrote: > I went through each index header letter, and they were all > the Group Titles IX, but I did do the update all. > > This partially fixed my problem. It took care of all but one > letter - O which with its index line is on one page, and the > content is on the next. > The

Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Stuart Rogers
Pete Rourke wrote: > > On a generated index, I have a two column spread alphabetically. My problem > is trying to find the right combination of 'keep with', Widow/Orphan lines, > Format to keep it from leaving the Group Titles IX paragraph with its Index > line at the bottom of a column or

Index colum-page breaks

2008-02-29 Thread Pete Rourke
Thanks Richard The pgf format is "GroupTitlesIX", and there is no asterisk on the status line. There is only one GroupTitlesIX format in the paragraph catalog, and re-applying the format changed nothing. I know that adding a new line above the broken pgf is an option were I on a hard deadline,

PDFMark Bookmarks

2008-02-29 Thread William Abernathy
My last attempt at getting this answered resulted in zero responses. I will assume that it was because my post was not a model of concision or clarity. So I'll try it again, hitting the highlights. When inserting PDFMark bookmarks to other PDF documents, is it possible to force the inserted

PDFMark Bookmarks

2008-02-29 Thread Combs, Richard
William Abernathy wrote: > My last attempt at getting this answered resulted in zero > responses. I will assume that it was because my post was not > a model of concision or clarity. So I'll try it again, > hitting the highlights. > > When inserting PDFMark bookmarks to other PDF documents,

PDFMark Bookmarks

2008-02-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Minor clarification. I said: > Where are you putting the PostScript code frame? I'm purely > guessing, but I'd put it on the first body page of the doc, I should have said the first body page of the first file in the book. The point is to locate it ahead of all the other bookmark sources in